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		<title>A Beginning and an End</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2013! Let&#8217;s not talk too much about 2012, m&#8217;kay? It wasn&#8217;t all bad, but&#8230; I went through a couple of heart breaks. I dealt with stress at work. However, I realized I&#8217;m pretty good at the mom thing. But I also realized I don&#8217;t need this blog the way I did in 2011&#8230;it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=882&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hugging Them Tighter Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I hug my children tighter tonight? You better damn well believe it&#8230; I watched the story in Newtown, CT unfold on Facebook today&#8230;I couldn&#8217;t take my eyes off of it&#8230;say what you want about our President, but when he cried, so did I&#8230;when I heard the children&#8217;s death toll went from 18 to 20, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=879&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making It Up As I Go Along</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized today &#8211; because I haven&#8217;t been thinking much about it up until today &#8211; that I am making this mom thing up as a I go along&#8230;I imagine that&#8217;s true of any parent&#8230; No, no, this isn&#8217;t some introspective look into my psyche as a parent and what does it all mean, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=876&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Two Minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sad state of affairs is that many (not all, thank God) single parents have to be both Mom and Dad to their children. I&#8217;m no exception, and I think I need more practice. At times, I want to be the softer, indulgent Mom who says, &#8220;Oh, they&#8217;re so sweet, it will be ok. Come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=873&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working On Mother of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, hope springs eternal, and I&#8217;ve decided to try for the totally real fictitious Mother of the Year award&#8230; I had lunch with Aidan for Thanksgiving&#8230;mmm, pressed turkey and canned green beans&#8230;I had lunch with Sean for Thanksgiving&#8230;.mmm, turkey lunch meat and canned green beans&#8230;clearly, I didn&#8217;t attend for the culinary horrors delights offered for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=869&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering What&#8217;s Important</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to get bogged down in the day to day, forgetting what matters most&#8230;intellectually, I know that my children and my family are what matters most&#8230;the people I love matter&#8230;but it&#8217;s easy to take that for granted &#8211; until you&#8217;re reminded&#8230; This week, for the first time in my life, I feared for my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=867&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Me Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is that saying about the best laid plans? Yeah, I don&#8217;t know either, but sometimes it sucks being a planner&#8230;when the plan doesn&#8217;t happen&#8230; I was supposed to go out of town on Saturday&#8230;but that didn&#8217;t happen&#8230;so then I held out hope for Sunday&#8230;nope, nada&#8230;thankfully, I&#8217;m not a person who enjoys being miserable, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=863&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Year Later&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago today (my birthday, by the way), I started a new phase of my divorced, single mom life&#8230;we moved &#8211; new town, new home, new school&#8230;I can&#8217;t help but look back on the past year and marvel at how I&#8217;ve changed&#8230; I&#8217;m better at the mom thing&#8230;by no means perfect, but better&#8230; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=860&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Looking Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a favor for The Ex today&#8230;partly for him&#8230;partly because it could potentially benefit me (I&#8217;m not an idiot)&#8230;but it required that I go back to the old house &#8211; the house still on the market&#8230;it was harder than I thought it would be&#8230; I agreed to go searching for his birth certificate in our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=858&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I Forget</title>
		<link>http://independentmichaela.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/sometimes-i-forget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 01:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crazy as it sounds, sometimes I forget that I&#8217;m a tough cookie&#8230;that life has thrown me curve-balls, and I&#8217;ve adapted and adjusted&#8230;and thrived&#8230; I forgot and let myself get very low this weekend&#8230;and then a nickname-less someone reminded me&#8230;he reminded me that I&#8217;m awesome&#8230;that I&#8217;m strong&#8230;that I&#8217;m intelligent&#8230;that I&#8217;m beautiful&#8230;that I accomplished more than most by myself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=independentmichaela.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22681201&#038;post=855&#038;subd=independentmichaela&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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