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		<title>I have measured out my life with coffee spoons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years of blogging.  Huh.  Imagine that.  
I feel like I should write something more meaningful today.  Instead, as a tribute to the utterly clueless college students in starbucks last night who alternately entertained and pissed me off, I&#8217;m just going to share a lovely bit of poetry.  It&#8217;s well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1676&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Allison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the search terms that bring people to this blog just seem to demand a response of some sort.  And since I have nothing else to write about these days&#8230;.
Oh, and the usual disclaimer.  I AM NOT A DOCTOR!!!  I&#8217;m just someone who has been going through infertility treatment for four years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1674&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please take a moment to remember the little ones who aren&#8217;t here and the families who deal every day with the loss.  Whether a pregnancy lasted only days or went to full term,  whether a baby was stillborn, never made it out of the NICU or went home for a time, chances are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1671&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hurdles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Finding a Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a life altered]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, I had almost enough frequent flier miles to get a free ticket.  It cost less to buy additional miles than it would have to purchase the ticket outright.  Then, I found out there&#8217;s an &#8220;Animal Fibers Fair&#8221; in Asheville and I&#8217;ve really wanted to find some nice wool to do some fancier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1669&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>and knitting, and knitting, and knitting&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.M.S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just my life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, crocheting really.  I tried for years to learn how to knit.  Let&#8217;s just say the cats were always very accepting of my final product.  After all, it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s more trapezoid than rectangle if you&#8217;re just going to lie on it in the sun.
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		<title>Food for thought</title>
		<link>http://ourowncreation.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/food-for-thought-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.M.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.”
~Bhagavad Gita
Deep thoughts on a birthday eve.
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		<title>Finally!</title>
		<link>http://ourowncreation.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/finally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.M.S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kitchen yummies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s starting to get pleasantly cool at night and that makes me want soups and stews for dinner.  Nevermind that we&#8217;re still hitting 85 or so during the day!
I&#8217;m always looking for new soup recipes, so I thought I&#8217;d propose a sort of recipe swap.  I&#8217;m going to post the soup recipe I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1659&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>99 things</title>
		<link>http://ourowncreation.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/99-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.M.S.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ourowncreation.wordpress.com/?p=1656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I&#8217;ve been an incredibly lax blogger these days.  There are only so many things I can write about the fact that:

 I still don&#8217;t have a job (although I had my second interview in almost a year this past week)
we aren&#8217;t currently cycling and don&#8217;t know exactly when we will
we still haven&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1656&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.M.S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just my life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years.
I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been that long nor that is has gone by so fast. It seems like just last month I sat outside that Starbucks waiting to meet face-to-face with this friend I&#8217;d met online.  
We got married in a hurricane.  It looks like we&#8217;ll be celebrating in a thunderstorm today. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1654&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD in NICU parents</title>
		<link>http://ourowncreation.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/ptsd-in-nicu-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.M.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure everyone has already seen the post over at Stirrup Queens, but just in case I wanted to post it here as well.
The New York Times has a post on post-traumatic stress disorder in NICU parents.  It&#8217;s sort of one of those &#8220;well, duh&#8221; things but that&#8217;s probably a result of my perspective. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourowncreation.wordpress.com&blog=957394&post=1651&subd=ourowncreation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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