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	<description>Fat Man&#039;s Daughter: an online memoir of weight, parenting, loss and living</description>
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		<title>Closet Clean Out</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/12/13/closet-clean-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fat Man's Daughter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the kids&#8217; band concert last Thursday and ran into the lovely lady pictured with me at right. She let me know she still had the shirt she is wearing in the picture below and let me know I looked great and could fit into the smaller version of the shirt. She still owned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Presents from Snooping Children</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/12/06/protecting-presents-from-snooping-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving to work this morning, I listened to Finster (of WKLT&#8217;s Omelette and Finster) complain about his stepkids snooping after his wife wrapped up presents and put them under the tree. Finster described a scene I was pretty familiar with &#8212; kids counting and shaking the various presents as they wonder what the packages might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anti-Thankful Post</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/11/24/the-anti-thankful-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mother of the Yeeeaar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is posting their reasons for being thankful, and I decided I needed to do something a bit different. I&#8217;m going to whine about having to share. It hasn&#8217;t been that long since my new Kindle Fire arrived. I have barely had any time to play with it, and some of my children hadn&#8217;t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children are Cute, right?</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/11/10/children-are-cute-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My children have been crazy busy. They have also been very emotional, bratty and filthy. If my daughters do not clean their room soon, I am going to have to take drastic measures because the state of their room is messing with my mind. The other day, my oldest daughter asked if her boyfriend could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Braceface</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/11/08/braceface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life with Linda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[braces]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been less than a week since I had braces installed on my upper teeth, and I am still getting used to them. Yesterday was my first day teaching while wearing braces. Almost immediately after my first class started, I noticed that I was getting a build-up of drool in the corners of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Family Photo</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/10/31/new-family-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, we went out into the woods to get firewood. While we were there, I loved the way these beech trees sort of created a natural grandstand. I decided to take the family photo there. In back we have Steve and Linda (me). In the front row, the children are arranged in birth order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hauling Wood</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/10/10/hauling-wood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, the husband woke everyone up fairly early, fed them breakfast and then made them trek into the woods. There he operated a chainsaw. When he was done cutting up wood-stove size pieces, it was the job of the rest of us to pick it up and put it into the truck. This happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Boys Suck</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/10/03/bad-boys-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mother of the Yeeeaar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was recently this post going around facebook about teaching daughters to tell the difference between a good man and a bad boy. The catchy little picture makes it sound so easy, but it is anything but. I have three teenaged daughters, and I have worked hard to make them self confident and smart and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love You Each Most</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/09/28/i-love-you-each-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I interviewed a parenting expert about sibling rivalry and how to deal with the &#8220;you like her more&#8221; syndrome. Dr. Carol Maxym, author of Teens in Turmoil, suggested that a parent tells the children &#8220;I love you each most.&#8221; It isn&#8217;t grammatically correct, but it rang true with me. There are things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She so can&#8217;t lie</title>
		<link>http://lindasherwood.com/wp/2011/09/26/she-so-cant-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My middle daughter has a problem lying convincingly. She cannot keep a straight face while lying. As her mother, I appreciate this trait. Today, we were watching the Ellen show, and they were mentioning their upcoming guests. They showed Wanda Sykes&#8217; photo, and my daughter said, &#8220;Hey, I know her.&#8221; Me: I know her too. [...]]]></description>
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