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2016 - It Was a Year
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A Year of Challenges
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I Gave Up Social Media
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How to Work Out Every Day (Kind Of)
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Update on Gifted 3: An Unschooling Experiment
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Forty-One: An Appraisal
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Looking Back: 2015
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A Letter to My Mother on what would have been her 81st Birthday
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2014: Ups and Downs (more Downs than Usual)
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A Pocket of Calm
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New Year’s Resolutions
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2013 Year in Review
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Ice Storm Christmas
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Thomas
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Two Things About Time
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Eight is Great
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Birthday 38: Another Post About Time
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Everything That Happened Since Last Time I Posted
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Write the Docs: Portland, Oregon, April 8–9
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Apricot Prune Kugel
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Latest Update on the Gifted Saga
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Cordelia Does Math
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What I Learned About Building a Natural Playground in a TDSB School
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Letter to Delphine's Teacher Re: Reading Log
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All of Summer 2012 in One Giant Post
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Gold Ring: A Poem By Delphine (Age 9)
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By Request: Some Quick Meal Ideas
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Happy Birthday To Me, 2012 Edition
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Two Playlists: Summer Tunes
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Many Things To Do: A Plan
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The Victoria Day Long Weekend, 2012
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Adventures In Giftedness: Chapter 1 of ???
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Some Shoes I Want
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A Night at the Opera: <em>A Florentine Tragedy</em> and <em>Gianni Schicchi</em>
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We Did It! Washing Machine Edition
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Doing Science
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Money (It's a Gas)
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Year in Review: 2011
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All The Other Books I Read This Year
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Fun For the Whole Family: Reviews of Three Board Games
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We Invented a Game!
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How to make a After School Snack
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Back To School 2011
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Japan 2011: What I Ate
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A Series of Disjointed Observations about Japan
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Great Piles of Crap
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Stop The World, I Want To Get Off
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Delphine Turns Eight
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Where We Stand and Where We're Going
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Decorate My Bathroom
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Meals We Love: Bacony Rice
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New York Adventure, Day 5
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New York Adventure, Day Four
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New York Adventure, Day Three
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New York Adventure, Day 2
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New York Adventure, Day 1
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More February Reads
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A Little Light Reading in February
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#amediting
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My To-Be-Read Shelf
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Insulin is the Devil
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7 Reasons Today Sucks
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The Things They Carried
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Cucumbers Suck
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I Read A Book!
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Sled Fight: Sibling Fight Resolved Daddy-Style
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Awesome Christmas Holiday Awesomeness, Days 2 and 3
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Last Book Blog of 2010
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2010: One of Those Form Letters
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Awesome Christmas Holiday Awesomeness: Day 1
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Christmas 2010
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Giant Book Blog, November 2010
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Dear Santa
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Meals My Family Loves, Volume II: Bangers and Mash
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A Weekend Away
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An Uncertain Thing
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Abundance Is Our Nemesis
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Famous Butternut Squash Soup
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Meals My Family Loves, Volume I: Chicken and Salsa
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Time Is On My Side – No It Ain't
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Cordelia is Five
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My Time Management Clues For Today
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8:25 a.m.
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1:21 a.m.
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Mid-Event Survey
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8:18 p.m.
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3:41 p.m.
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10:42 a.m.
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Read-A-Thon Reading List
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Qualified
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A Story from my Mother
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No, Really
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Thomas
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Time Management
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Dewey's Read-a-Thon
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Walking Plan
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Choir Today
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Book book book
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Deck Party 2010
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Foul Friday
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Some Pictures
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Five Things You Can Do In The Amount of Time it Takes a Cup of Tea to Brew
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Sibling Misery and Bedtime Woe
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Happy New Year!
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The First Sign of Trouble
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Talking Marriage with Cordelia
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A Tale of Three Dinners
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New Pictures!
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Summer's Last Hurrah
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So many books
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Books for the Beginning of 2010
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New Pictures
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New Pictures
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Easter Sunday 2010
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What Up?
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Letter from Driving School
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Something's Gotta Go—For a While
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Telefool
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Books for the Beginning of 2010
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Delphine Is Nearly Seven
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Cordelia Reads!
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Weekend Matinees
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Delphine's Dream Spa
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Cordelia Brown, Age Four (and Some)
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What I Learned When Blake Was Away
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More Mornings
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Morning is Broken
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My Parenting Bookshelf
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Things To Do: Be More Awesome
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That's the End of 2009
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Small Children Are Funny Because They Don't Know Things
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Books Read in 2009: Year In Review
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This Is the Last of Them: Books in December
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Welcome to Blog-o!
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Books Read in Novemberish Decemberish
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2009
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Meet Max
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The Sound of Music
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H1N1 Shots
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Vegan Chocolate Cake
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Books I Read Lately: November Edition
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My Christmas List
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Delphine Writes <strong>To</strong> Santa
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Positive Parenting: Case Study #1
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New Pictures Up
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How Do They Do It?
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Fear
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Delphine Writes About Santa
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Fuck That
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Christmas Pudding Cookies, or, I Am a Culinary Genius
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Books I Read Lately: Mid-October 2009 Edition (Part The Second)
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Books I've Read Lately: Mid-October 2009 Edition
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I Get <em>So Mad</em>
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Cordelia is Four!
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Writing About Writing: My First Real Project
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Requiem for a Missed Opportunity
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Books in July and August
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Pictures!
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Summer's End
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And Now The Legacy Begins
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Cordelia The Brave
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Catching Up At the End of Summer
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Books I Bought With My Birthday Money
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Discussion Questions for <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay</em>
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Books in June and July
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Jeff and Colleen
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The New Cordelia
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Oakville ride
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Graduation, Passion, and Shopping Frustration
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Happy Birthday Uncle Erik!
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Getting Twitter 2.0
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Two Books About Compost
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Like A Sensitive Little Flower
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Latest News at Casa Winton Brown
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Some Miscellaneous Kid Things
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Conversations with Blake
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Writin' and Survivin': Books in May
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My Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant
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Growing Pains
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April and May Books
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Sixth Birthday
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Last Day of Five
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Further Thoughts on Guides
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Guides or Not?
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
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Apocalypse When?
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What I Do
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Imbalance, Rebalance
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April Books
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Delphine's Meal Plan
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April Books
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New Pictures!
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Gatekeeping
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President's Choice Financial
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Oh Jesus Why?
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March (of the) Books, 2009
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Cordelia is Three and a Half
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March Books
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Things I Want, Part MMXXXVII
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Apple Butter
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More Marvellous March Break
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Awesome First Day of March Break
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Letters, I Send Letters
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Books To End February and Begin March
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State of The Nation
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Another Great Video
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This Is Fracking Brilliant
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Seven Things You Don't Know About Me (Maybe)
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Well it's been 14 years...
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.plan
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February Books, Some Of 'em, Anyway
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Derailed
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Long Weekend Report
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MMR Study Fixed
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Professor Banned From Campus For... What?
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Sick
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A Story of One Girl and Her Dirty Chunk of Snow
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Science Groupie For Hire
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Shiny Happy People
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One More Run
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Two Picture Books We Love
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Conversation with Cordelia
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The 15 Minute Career Test
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What's On The Fridge?
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Why Do Mirrors Reverse Left and Right But Not...
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Running in the Snow
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Where To Begin?
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Best Book Of 2009 (so far)
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Fat Girl Running
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Friends to Make Maps With
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What I Know About Window Film Insulation
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Poems By Delphine
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Y'all Should Watch This
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State Of The Nation
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What We Call Each Other
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State of The Nation, or, What's Going On?
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State of The Nation, or, What's Going On?
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Book book book... b'gawk!
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They're Insane
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The Ac Is Back
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More Atheism
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Three Books
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Christmas Retrospective, 2008
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Books Read Since Mid-November
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Hello 2009!
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Memoirs Read in 2008
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Fiction Books Read in 2008
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Book Club Books Read in 2008
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A Quote I Like About Atheism
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Parenting Books Read in 2008
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Books Read in 2008: Non-Fiction
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Things I Want
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Cordelia is...
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New Pictures
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Why Obama?
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Things They Say
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Uncalledfor
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Spooky Hallowe'en
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This is for Dave (because I think it would amuse him)
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Hallowe'en and Other Things
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Three!
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Dead Dads Club
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First Day of Senior Kindergarten
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What We Did On Our Summer Vacation
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Big Birthday Excitement
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Pictures
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Graduation Videos
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Conversations with Delphine, Part XV: Shouted and Written
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Cordelia Grows Up
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Some Pictures for 2008
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Delphine is Five
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Shrinking Habitats of Eight-Year-Olds
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Camera Technology Through The Ages
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Lick Sticks
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Free Range Kids
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Conversations with Cordelia
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TTC Madness
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A Day In The Life: Friday, April 25, 2008
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Spring
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Everything Else I Read in 2007
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Disjointed Observations (some of which resemble bragging): Delphine Edition
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March Break
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Mind-set, or why I don't tell my kids they are smart
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Too Different!
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So Much Snow
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Two Nice Days
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Whingeing
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Three Shows
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Miss Independent
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Cordelia's First Parent-Teacher Interview
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My iPod is Trying To Kill Me
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Dear Rogers Telemarketing Guy
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Two Things About My Brother
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Those Damn Paparazzi!
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New Pictures Up
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A Day in Our Life, 2007
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A Year in Proven... uh, Davisville Village
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First Hallowe'en in the New House!
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Conversations with Kindergarteners
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P-t-e-r-a-n-o-d-o-n spells Pteranodon!
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Delphine Goes to Kindergarten
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Midnight Cravings?
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Cordelia Is Two!
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We're Back!
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New Pictures!
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The Cottage
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I Read Some More Books!
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Get Me Out Of Here
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System Administrator Appreciation Day
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Yet More Books
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More Books I Have Read This Year
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Whatever happened to...
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Six Months Later...
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Oh Dear.
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Delphine Talk
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We have growth!
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Retreat to the Great Indoors
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Spring in the New Garden
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Cordelia says...
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Four!
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Ouch.
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Almost Done! Really!
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Birth Story
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Conversations with Delphine, Part 6
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Conversations With Delphine, Part VII: Beer
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God's Own Chocolate Cake
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Lazy Man's Homemade Ice Cream
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More Sleeping
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People Food
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Seven and A Half Months
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Testy
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Toys for Babies
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Urbane and Mellow
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Why?
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You should need a license...
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Nineteen Months: Running, Climbing, Laughing
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Conversations With Delphine: The Tooth Fairy
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Pictures
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Renovation: One Week Down
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Dead Insects
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I'm A Woodcutter!
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Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy?
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Not Sleeping, No Sir.
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Knock-Knock!
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Cordelia at Seventeen Months
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The Reno Begins
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Running? What?
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Cordelia is Sixteen Months Old
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Crappity Crap
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New Pictures Up
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First Two Books of 2007
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Babies Rock
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Books Read in October and November
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Cordelia is Fifteen Months Old
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Settling
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Delphine is Three and a Half (and a little bit)
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December Slump
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We're In
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Moving Day Minus One
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New Pictures Up
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Things Delphine Says
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Calamity Jane
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New House Nerves
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Hallowe'en Princess
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Selling. Or not.
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5K Again!
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Eight And Ones, and Other Things
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Oh yeah, and...
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OhmygodWhatHaveWeDone?
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Talk About Your Holy Wars
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Conversations with Delphine, Telephone Edition.
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What's Next?
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Done!
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More Five and One
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Increasing Intervals
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And what else?
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She Walks
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Books In August and September
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Five And One; Two Weeks To Race Day
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Conversations With Delphine
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Books in August
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Assaulted Women Need Your Help
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Running With A Friend, and Some Other Things
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Cordelia at Ten Months
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The English Language is Putty In Her Hands
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Books in July and August
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This is my first post.
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Two and Ones
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Conversations with Delphine, Part X
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Thirty-One
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A Week At The Cottage
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Alarming Things They Say
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The AIDS Walk for Life.
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Conversations with Delphine: Bedtime Edition
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One and One
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Let's Pretend
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Evening Routine
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Back in the running
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How To Feed Your Baby (When You Can Barely Feed Yourself): Six Month Edition
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New Food Chart
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Conversations with Delphine: World Cup Commentary Edition
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New Pictures
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The Too-Long Nap
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Coppa Del Mundo
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Shut up, nasty little man.
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Nine Month Statistics
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Woe Is Me (But At Least I Am Not Dead)
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Cordelia: Nine Months
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Books in June
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Things Bought: June 2006 Edition
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Delphine: Three and a Month
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Books in May
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My Life (No Baby News Here)
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Delphine is Three!
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List of Books
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Three Food Things
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Huh?
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Sleeping Like A Baby
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Six Month Statistics
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End of March
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Things We Have Called Cordelia That Are Not, In Fact, Cordelia
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Things That Have Made Delphine Cry
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A Useful Link
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Miscellaneous Things
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Don't You Have Another Kid Too?
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Cordelia at Five Months
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March (of the) Books
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Good Stuff I Bought
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Some More Advice
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February Books
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Unsolicited Advice
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Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea...
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Conversations with Delphine, V
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Miracle Cure
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About the Name
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<em>Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children</em> by Wendy Mogel
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More January Books
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Morale is Low
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Let's try this again.
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My Life in Point Form
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What's Up With The Baby?
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Who's in charge here?
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Conversations with Delphine, Part IV
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2005 Books Overview
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Books for the New Year
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New Year's Resolutions
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Becoming Three
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Some Exciting Things
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December Books
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It's that time again...
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Books
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You know you're from Saskatchewan when...
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You can take the girl out of math...
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She's Fine
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(Mystifying) Conversations with Delphine
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Three More Books
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I'm calling you out!
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Oh no you di'n't!
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Conversations with Delphine
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Early November Reading
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She's so advanced.
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Almost Two and a Half
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Some More Books I have Read in October
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One Month
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The Led Zeppelin of the Oughts?
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<em>The Rebel Sell: Why The Culture Can't Be Jammed</em> by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
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First Week
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Announcement
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Two More Mysteries
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Birth Story
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<em>Black Like Me</em> by John Howard Griffin
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<em>The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science</em> by Horace Freeland Judson
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Some Light Reading
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<em>Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America</em> by Morgan Spurlock
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Home Alone
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In the Home Stretch
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Late Summer Reading
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Yuck.
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Thirty
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Two and Two Months
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Like Baba.
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Argh.
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Twenty-nine Weeks
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<em>The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less</em> by Barry Schwartz
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<em>The Art of Urban Cycling</em> by Robert Hurst
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<em>Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants</em> by Robert Sullivan
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Two Books
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Lots of Books
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Bad back! Bad!
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Insomnia and Melancholy
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Little Milestones
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Backwards
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Stupid Pregnancy
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Halfway there.
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Two!
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Conversations with Delphine
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<em>Dead Air</em> by Iain Banks
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Almost Two!
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Not Really
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Good Day
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Much better
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<em>The Ruby in the Smoke</em> by Philip Pullman
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<em>Havoc, in Its Third Year</em> by Ronan Bennett
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<em>Thirteen Steps Down</em> by Ruth Rendell
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<em>How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and The World and What You Can Do About It</em> by Bill Quinn
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Something by Ian Rankin
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Sorry, didn't I mention...?
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Ugh.
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What happened to Madeline?
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Daycare
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First Symptoms
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Twenty Months
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<em>Pearls in Vinegar: The Pillow Book of Heather Mallick</em>
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<em>Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings</em> by Pamela Nagami, M.D.
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<em>The G.I. Diet</em> by Rick Gallop
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Pregnant.
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<em>The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo</em> by Clea Koff
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<em>Beating Back the Devil: On The Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service</em> by Maryn McKenna
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<em>Girls' Own: An Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers</em> by Sarah Ellis
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<em>How We Can Save The Planet</em> by Mayer Hillman
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Approaching 2005
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Today
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Nineteen Months
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More Pronounciation By Delphine
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Ugh.
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Hello.
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Pronounciation by Delphine
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Wisdom of Babies
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Links for Morgan
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Some Stuff
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Seventeen Months
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Books Good
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First Words
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Crib
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Fifteen Month Checkup
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The Saddest Thing In The World.
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Fifteen months old
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Dud.
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Saturday Morning
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It's a Blog...
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One
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Constructive
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Eleven Months
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Holiday Eating
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Meltdown
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Arthur Itis
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Not Much Excitement
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Two-thousand Calories
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Living the life I live
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Nothing.
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28 Year Checkup
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Nine Months
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More things
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Another great baby journal
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So Many Things
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Careering
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Black Eyed Peas
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Massive Attack
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Self-centered and Self-absorbed
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Sick Day
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Bought: Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Soothing Relief Anti-Itch Moisturizer
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Swimming
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Two Things I Don't Feel Guilty About
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Bored Now
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Me too.
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Pictures
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Enough
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Bad Sister
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About Blog-o!
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Too Cheap to be a Girl
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Eight Months
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Tasty Lunch
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Announcement
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A New Tooth.
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Bat saliva may lead to new stroke drug
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Delhi Belly May Protect Against Colon Cancer
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Scientists Figuring Out Hiccups
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