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		<title>New Horizons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First a quick update. Today I was prepped for shoulder surgery, hospital johnny flapping in the wind, waiting for a couple of hours and they cancelled it due to an emergency, sigh. So now I wait until it&#8217;s rescheduled.
However, my new blog is ready, more or less. I&#8217;d like to direct you to my new blog, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -JFK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something has been building for a while with my thoughts about my blog. And so there are going to be changes in the future. My blog has been a reflection in many ways of my life. It was definitely a personal blog. I started out blogging about the kids, about homeschooling and attachment parenting interspersed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/10/31/change-is-the-law-of-life-and-those-who-look-only-to-the-past-or-present-are-certain-to-miss-the-future-jfk/</link>
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		<title>As Moms Wii Choose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you remember my recent post about contemplating to buy a wii for the kids for xmas, well that&#8217;s exactly what I did. Today&#8217;s grokdotcom.com blog post by Holly Buchanan didn&#8217;t suprise me in the least in it&#8217;s discussion that the Nintendo Wii is proving more popular with women than sony or microsoft. Over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/10/22/as-moms-wii-choose/</link>
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		<title>October Chatter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what have I been up to in October.
The kids and I have started Geocaching. It&#8217;s treasure hunting for the whole family using a GPS unit. We went to an intro session today and now we&#8217;re all hooked. It&#8217;s been on my to do list for a while, so next step is buying a GPS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/10/21/october-chatter/</link>
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		<title>Getting Married</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nope, not me;)
And apparently neither is Allen Stern at Centernetworks.com.
I can&#8217;t get married yet - I need to find her on Facebook, make sure she has a MySpace page, she will need to tell her friends about the proposal via twitter, her family will find out via rss on her blog&#8230;
Keep reading about marriage web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/10/14/getting-married/</link>
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		<title>To Wii or not to Wii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking of getting the kids a wii for xmas but wondered if anyone had any personal experience. I have to admit that I always said that I wouldn&#8217;t buy a nintendo, xbox, etc. as we had computers and I couldn&#8217;t see the point for just playing games. But I like how the wii has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/10/06/to-wii-or-not-to-wii/</link>
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		<title>Being Different</title>
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As many of you know, Alec is 10 years old and has mild asperger&#8217;s syndrome. He struggles with feelings of isolation and wanting to be accepted by his peers. He hates being different and sometimes says he wants to be like the other kids who tease and bully him.
Today after school, he was especially upset. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/09/28/being-different/</link>
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		<title>The Coles Notes version to my summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May:

Ok, so remember my van fiasco? Well I bought a new van, a mazda mpv. It&#8217;s very nice, even has a dvd player for the kids on long rides. I&#8217;m saying good bye to north american made vehicles. My sympathies to all dodge caravan owners.

June:

End of school year, kids and I go on vacation to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/09/09/the-coles-notes-version-to-my-summer/</link>
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		<title>Coming out of the woodwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promise a full update of the summer, life and all in the next week. Now that the kids are back to school (Bram starting kindergarten) things are balancing out. I shall try to make a habit of doing at least a weekly post in here again.

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		<link>http://www.simpleessentials.net/blog/index.php/archives/2007/09/06/coming-out-of-the-woodwork/</link>
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		<title>What happened to me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I did it again. I seem to take a sabbatical from blogging every so often. Although this time it was replaced with something else. It&#8217;s still the usual, busy with work and kids, but I&#8217;ve more or less moved over to facebook as I find it so easy to keep up with friends and [...]]]></description>
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