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		<title>V is for Valentine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[V is for the valiant deeds you do as a matter of course—like traipsing through our home in the dead of night in your underwear to find the source of a sound I’ve tried (and failed miserably) to adequately describe, &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/02/14/v-is-for-valentine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2524&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I type, I&#8217;m envisioning the disjointed discussion likely taking place in my brood&#8217;s fifth-grade classroom right about now, spawned, of course, by the events surrounding Saturday&#8217;s cleaning fest at our home. Like most frenzied attempts to rid my world &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/02/06/captain-underpants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2501&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Permanence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of things in this world are disturbing to me. Greed, poverty and heinous crime. The demise of the planet and the pervasiveness of mediocrity. Mismatched socks and the death of Gilligan’s Island. Oddly enough, I include technology on that &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/02/04/the-value-of-permanence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2495&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t even know the woman, but I bristled when she spoke. Of course, her words weren&#8217;t even intended for me and I&#8217;m sure she had no idea how capably they would seize my joy and take me back in &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/30/words-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2463&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hands Upon My Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was nine or ten, I remember well my enthrallment with my mother’s hands. They were delicate and slender, sweetly scented and rose petal-soft—so completely unlike my own nicked and scraped, callused and chafed boy-like hands that were better &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/22/hands-upon-my-heart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2457&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012: The Year of the Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Planet Mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is the year of the dragon. I know this to be true not only because I googled the bejesus out of it, but because my brood became riddled with delirium upon learning they had &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/18/2012-the-year-of-the-dragon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2421&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And on the Eighth Day, God Created Tactless Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Planet Mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mom, do you have any clothes that are snug?&#8221; one of my brood tossed out as she snacked on a slice of pizza the size of Connecticut. &#8220;Snug?&#8221; I asked. Could a wispy second grader fully and completely grasp the &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/12/and-on-the-eighth-day-god-created-tactless-children-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2445&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Twelfth of Never</title>
		<link>http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/07/the-twelfth-of-never-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Planet Mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My refrigerator is the center of my universe, the heart and soul of my being and the hub of all that defines my world. Not because of the mince pie, Jack cheese and leftovers contained within. But because of the &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/07/the-twelfth-of-never-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2414&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Kinder, Gentler Sort of Holiday Madness</title>
		<link>http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/04/a-kinder-gentler-sort-of-holiday-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the eleventh day of Christmas and finally it’s safe to venture beyond one’s home out into the Land of Wares. At least it would seem so. The tired, the poor and the frenzied masses have all gone home, lugging &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/04/a-kinder-gentler-sort-of-holiday-madness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2381&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Only You Had Known</title>
		<link>http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/02/if-only-you-had-known/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Planet Mom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love and Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brothers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I can&#8217;t help but be reminded of that awful chapter in my life&#8230;and in the lives of so many who were affected my my brother&#8217;s passing. Depression is an unmerciful beast and those who battle mightily against said beast &#8230; <a href="http://melindawentzel.com/2012/01/02/if-only-you-had-known/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melindawentzel.com&amp;blog=11651959&amp;post=2404&amp;subd=planetmomblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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