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		<title>Oh no! My Son’s Growing Up and Changing our Family Traditions!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In years past, I’ve blogged about the beauty of the Advent season  and taking time during the frenetic holiday season to Slow Down and Relax. This year, I took my own advice, and did less blogging – and working – and more cookie baking!  But we still practiced – or tried to practice – the [...]


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		<title>Back-to-School Adjustments and Homework Hassles. How’s it Going?</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2011/09/21/back-to-school-adjustments-and-homework-hassles-how%e2%80%99s-it-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t be the only parent who feels like once the kids go back to school, I’ve got a new, demanding job.  Demanding jobs are great, but I already have one! It&#8217;s a lot to deal with, whether you&#8217;re helping a child adjust to the new teachers’ styles; figuring out which battles to fight and [...]


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<li><a href='http://organicmania.com/2011/08/20/back-to-school-shopping-remembering-you-can-still-refuse-reduce-reuse-repurpose-or-recycle/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Back to School Shopping: Remembering You Can Still Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose or Recycle!'>Back to School Shopping: Remembering You Can Still Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose or Recycle!</a> <small>I chalk it up to a mother’s Prehistoric background as...</small></li>
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		<title>Check Out This Month&#8217;s Green Moms Carnival: Green Back-to-School!</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2011/08/30/check-out-this-months-green-moms-carnival-green-back-to-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Ideas & Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the fourth time in as many years, my friends &#8212; the Green Moms of the Green Moms Carnival &#8211; have come together to share our tips on how to get ready for the back-to-school rush. I hope you&#8217;ve read my post about how sometimes even Green Moms forget to Reduce, Reuse, Refuse, Repurpose, and [...]


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		<title>Back to School Shopping: Remembering You Can Still Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose or Recycle!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I chalk it up to a mother’s Prehistoric background as a Gatherer, married with her primal instinct to protect and prepare her offspring. How else to explain the fact that so many of us forget all about the Cardinal Rules of The Five Rs (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle) when it comes to our [...]


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		<title>Sick Kids: Ya Gotta Have Friends and Good Old Fashioned Neighbors</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2010/10/17/sick-kids-ya-gotta-have-friends-and-good-old-fashioned-neighbors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized with horror tonight that I had not updated my blog. It seemed that between Twitter, FaceBook, email and the phone, I had gotten the word out to everyone I knew: my son is home, recuperating from surgery for a ruptured appendix. It was so comforting to have the many cyber-hugs and words of [...]


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		<title>The Babies of BlogHer: The Second Annual Round-Up</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2010/08/09/the-babies-of-blogher-the-annual-round-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second of what I hope to be an annual series of posts, I pay tribute to the Babies of BlogHer. Last year, I attended my first Blogher conference, and I marveled about how I&#8217;d never attended a conference with babes-in-arms. I spent twenty years working in the tech industry, where women at conferences [...]


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		<title>The One Where I Call My DH a Nerd in Our Hometown Paper: The Washington Post!</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2010/04/23/the-one-where-i-call-my-dh-a-nerd-in-our-hometown-paper-the-washington-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, I did get his permission before sending the blog post off to education writer Valerie Straus at The Answer Sheet,  billed as a “school survival guide for parents and everyone else.” “How could I argue?” he laughed. In addition to being very smart, my darling husband of 11 years is very funny! It was [...]


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		<title>Kids and Earth Hour: Finally, We&#8217;ve Got It Down!</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2010/03/27/kids-and-earth-hour-finally-weve-got-it-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Earth Hour debuted in 2008, I&#8217;ve struggled with how to incorporate the late evening holiday into my childrens&#8217; bedtime routines. The first year, we celebrated what I called an &#8220;Earth Minute.&#8221; Last year, I had it all figured out: I shared all the details on   Five Tips for Observing Earth Hour with [...]


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		<title>Teaching Financial Literacy &amp; Values or NO, The Lego Company is NOT a Charity!</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2010/03/10/teaching-financial-literacy-values-allowances-or-no-the-lego-company-is-not-a-charity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A  tweet yesterday about teaching financial literacy through allowances caught my attention, mainly because I’m expecting to start work shortly on a new client project that will engage kids with financial issues (in a green way, of course!&#8230; More to come on that when it’s finalized). As @johnlanza said, allowances are a great idea. BUT [...]


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		<title>Roses and Thorns</title>
		<link>http://organicmania.com/2010/02/22/roses-and-thorns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say what you will about President Obama. He’s too liberal. He’s not liberal enough.  He needs to move to the center. He’s doing just fine. Whatever. But here’s what we can all agree on:  his family is cute. So when I saw a Parade cover story  about the adorable Obamas, of course I read it. [...]


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