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	<title>cultivating me &#187; kids</title>
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		<title>turning back time</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2009/07/22/turning_back_time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[do you ever wish you could do that?  turn back time?  maybe to make a different choice or to erase a mistake?  what about just for the chance to relive a day or a moment?  these days i&#8217;ve been awfully nostalgic and sentimental.  i don&#8217;t know what it is that has brought this on.  maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i knew this day would come</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2009/02/24/i_knew_this_day_would_come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Tuesday; just an ordinary day.  It&#8217;s not the beginning nor the end of the week &#8211; it&#8217;s not even the middle of the week&#8230;but Tuesday is about to become a very special day.
Recently, my daughter was promoted to a member of the ballet company she&#8217;s been training at and my oldest son was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a peek into the mind of a teenager</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are my daughter&#8217;s own words.  If it wasn&#8217;t clear to me how grown up she is and is getting, it sure is now!! Pay close attention to the last paragraph because I think she&#8217;s on to something there.  It is things like this which make me look at her and ask &#8220;Is she really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>learning to fly</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2009/01/14/learning_to_fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[or as so happens to be the case in my house, learning to get yourself where you need to be.  but you know the whole leaving the nest metaphor seemed appropriate here.  i&#8217;ve talked in the past about learning to let go of my kids, about learning to let them learn to do things &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>healing a broken heart</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2009/01/08/healing_a_broken_heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is hard.  i not quite sure i how i ever healed my broken hearts and i surely don&#8217;t know how to heal another&#8217;s.  especially when it is my daughters.
today i saw her broken heart as she looked for her good friend to say one last goodbye.  C moved here with her parents over the summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>in which she learns a lesson and i don&#8217;t have to say anything</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2008/12/16/in_which_she_learns_a_lesson_and_i_dont_have_to_say_anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[today when i picked my daughter up from school, i knew before she even got to the car that something was wrong.  she was walking too fast with her head down and the closer she got, the more i could see the redness in her cheeks.  by the time she reached the door, she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>saturday morning breakfast</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2008/12/07/saturday_morning_breakfast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[yesterday morning i woke up early.  not because the neighbor&#8217;s dog was barking or there was a lawn mower running or because the kids were being too loud running up and down the hallway.  i got up early ON PURPOSE! 8am to be exact and i was completely excited to do it.
a couple of weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>homecoming alternative</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2008/11/11/homecoming_alternative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kids didn&#8217;t have school today in honor of Veteran&#8217;s Day and so last night was the night of the Homecoming Dance for my daughter&#8217;s high school.  I know Monday is a weird night to host a dance but with no school on Tuesday it sort of made sense and I bet the cost for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>being a meanie</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2008/10/30/being_a_meanie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i love being a mom.  i&#8217;d love to say i love everything about it but there are times when being the grown up, being the parent, is not what i love.
last night was one of those times.  my daughter started high school this year but she also started taking junior company classes at a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>to my young man..on the day you become a teen ;O)</title>
		<link>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2008/10/12/to_my_young_manon_the_day_you_become_a_teen_o/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennwestfall.com/blog/2008/10/12/to_my_young_manon_the_day_you_become_a_teen_o/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday Luis

I&#8217;ve started this post so many times over the past week and words have not seem to come to me.  Today you turned  13 &#8211; THIRTEEN LUIS!  &#8211; and I am still having a hard time wrapping my mind around this fact.  I don&#8217;t know why it is hard for me to accept [...]]]></description>
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