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		<title>Empty Nest Countdown: One. Week.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This countdown is getting serious. She leaves in One. Week. What do you do the last week before your last child leaves for college? It&#8217;s busy for her as she says goodbye to her friends, packs and cleans her trash pit dumping zone room. Busy for me as I plan the send-off dinner, try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Empty Nest Countdown: 20 Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 20 days, my youngest daughter, Sara Ann, leaves for college. It’s the most significant life change since I first became a mother in 1988. I’ve been counting down the days, not to be morbid, but because it&#8217;s easier for me to process if I&#8217;m aware of what is happening. We spent this past weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graduation Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 13:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My youngest child can now: Vote, Buy cigarettes, Get a tattoo, Sign a lease, Get married, Join the military, Be prosecuted as an adult. I hope she does 1 and 5 (but let&#8217;s wait a few years for 5), 3 is coming soon, I figure she&#8217;ll do 4 in a year or so and hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once More Across Home Plate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turned 51 a couple of weeks ago. I like birthdays. And no cancer survivor in their right mind complains about getting another year older. It&#8217;s kind of like a lopsided baseball game — even though the winning team is far ahead, they still try to cross home plate one more time. You can certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunset or Sunrise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a beautiful sunset — or was it a sunrise? I watched it from our deck of my family&#8217;s house overlooking Greers Ferry Lake. Sara Ann was about to begin her senior year in high school, my last school year with a child at home. Prelude to the empty nest. Between the uncharacteristically cool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life with Teenagers: The Hills I&#039;m Not Gonna Die On: Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life with teenagers requires some flexibility. No, as the parent you really don&#8217;t have to bend, but if you&#8217;re wise, you&#8217;ll figure out which things are deal breakers and which are not. Fighting with your teen over minor issues will ruin both your lives. Is that really what you want them to remember about their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#039;s Day X 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo of my girls was taken in 1992. This past Sunday, Mother&#8217;s Day, I celebrated my 20th anniversary of motherhood. It began about this time of year in 1988 — my first pregnancy. While lying on the couch one afternoon, I felt a strange fluttering in my abdomen, which I immediately recognized as life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strollers to Car Keys: Already?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 14:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo was taken in the summer of 1994, when my girls were two and five-and-a-half. They are now 16 and 19. Time flies. About 19 years ago I read a magazine article that talked about how we often wish our children&#8217;s lives away. I can&#8217;t wait until the first smile, can&#8217;t wait until they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sisters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My girls, left, in 1992 (Sara Ann was one day old) and, right, on Mother&#8217;s Day 2007 My two girls have always been very close. They are three-and-a-half years apart in age, four grades apart in school, which works out marvelously where college is concerned. I resolved early on, as soon as I knew I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Most Prestigious Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks I have been awarded the highest honor ever bestowed upon me. (Please pardon my messy desk.) My youngest daughter&#8217;s friends are at our house a lot, and I frequently drive carpool to various places, so I&#8217;ve gotten to know them pretty well. Last week we had a big party [...]]]></description>
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