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		<title>The first and the second child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first child is hard.  Everything is new, which leads to a lack of confidence.  You start the day with questions, find a few answers scattered along the way, but end up scooping up even more questions than you originally started with.
The first child is easy.  You have time.  Time to hold and snuggle.  Time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My unhealthy sadness over Seal and Heidi Klum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a middle-schooler, I obsessed over Seal&#8217;s song, &#8220;Kissed by a Rose.&#8221;  When it came on the radio, I would rush to hit record so I could have it on a tape to listen to whenever I so desired &#8212; which was a lot.  It took a few tries to get to the radio in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thrilledbythethought.com/2012/01/25/my-unhealthy-sadness-over-seal-and-heidi-klum/</link>
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		<title>Soaking up the sun&#8230; in January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I tell you what&#8230; this winter is really throwing me for a loop.
I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like in your part of the world, but here it&#8217;s warm.  Not like let&#8217;s-go-swimming warm, but warm enough that my new winter boots are getting awfully jealous of my old flats.  And my flats are feeling just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thrilledbythethought.com/2012/01/20/soaking-up-the-sun-in-january/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All in How You Look at Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a post the other day about women who live under the illusion that other women are perfect.  The writer, Sabrina, wrote about how she was still crying for no reason three and a half months after her baby boy was born.  She felt like she was the only one experiencing this, and pointed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thrilledbythethought.com/2012/01/07/its-all-in-how-you-look-at-things/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a distinct memory from when I was a little girl of standing in my backyard, whining to my mom that we should change my name to Sarah.  My mom told me again and again that we weren&#8217;t going to change my name, and that Rebecca was a perfectly nice name.  I responded by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Try This Again: New Year&#8217;s Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last New Year&#8217;s resolution I remember making &#8212; and keeping &#8212; was in middle school, when I resolved to never yawn with my mouth open again.  What?  It&#8217;s rude to throw out a big-mouth yawn when someone is talking!  I succeeded with that resolution &#8212; until I realized that when I yawn with my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thrilledbythethought.com/2011/12/29/lets-try-this-again-new-years-goals/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Eve Dinner Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready for the best, sure to become your most favorite Christmas Eve dinner tradition?  A warning from my mom: once you start this tradition, nobody will let you stop.  But I say, why would you want to?
Step 1: Get a small present for each person in your family.  In our little family, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thrilledbythethought.com/2011/12/22/christmas-eve-dinner-tradition/</link>
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		<title>Salt Lake Acting Company&#8217;s &#8220;How I Became a Pirate&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We saw our second play put on by the Salt Lake Acting Company this weekend.  I really am impressed with these guys.  The first SLAC play I saw was The Persian Quarter, a story about the Iranian hostage situation in 1980.  That play had hardly any props and only four actors!  Even with such a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thrilledbythethought.com/2011/12/12/salt-lake-acting-companys-how-i-became-a-pirate/</link>
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		<title>Ghost Birthday Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My cute little 4 year-old has a mind of her own.  She chooses&#8230; um&#8230; interesting things to become obsessed with.  Her current obsession?  Ghosts, or ghosts-es as she calls them.  NICE ghosts-es, she is sure to clarify.
So when I asked what kind of birthday party she wanted to have, she immediately chose a ghost party. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thrilledbythethought.com/2011/12/09/ghost-birthday-party/</link>
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		<title>And Now She is Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little girl just turned 4!

When she was a baby, I read about a birthday photo tradition in a magazine, and I have loved doing our own photo tradition.  The magazine suggested taking your child&#8217;s picture in the same chair every year as a cute way to show how your child is growing.  Since I [...]]]></description>
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