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		<title>Twisted Path to the Pot of Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only did I overhear my kids talking about the pot of gold that was going to show up on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day (as it does every year) but I also learned from them that there was going to be an actual Scavenger Hunt to find the gold. Please.
Lifetimes are made up of the little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Finally Gets a Babysitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, Carl has served as the perfect guardian for a little girl. Carl is a black dog that babysits while Mom goes on numerous adventures in the adorable series of children&#8217;s picture books by Alexandra Day. Carl was doing just fine, until, the books came under scrutiny by a handful of critics who were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My plants are well-read</title>
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Looking back, I can say that my greatest memory of last summer was not developing goose bumps waiting  behind a boat, but rather, feeding  friends and family directly from the garden. Now&#8217;s the time to start this summer&#8217;s crop.
The Farmer&#8217;s Almanac has a handy-dandy calendar available for free that has already calculated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Never Sounded So Delicious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t chicken sound good for dinner? Name that movie was delayed by life. The dialogue, which many of you knew, (some admitted figuring it out with Google&#8217;s help) was from a movie better known for its reputation as holding the &#8220;the longest kiss,&#8221; Notorious. Only Cary Grant could make chicken, eaten with your fingers, sound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/chicken-never-sounded-so-delicious/</link>
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		<title>How it&#8217;s gonna be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wooden trains have been buried in their storage tub since that sick day when he built an un-Christmas train last year.  I made a good-faith effort to pull out the train and placed the tracks under the real Christmas tree this year; but the train was not embraced. In fact, it was simply ignored.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Sorry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I caught his eye, and before I let the words out, his eyes told me to stop. Stop. Don&#8217;t say what you&#8217;re going to say. But I said it anyway. I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m sorry for your loss.
The words brought exasperation to his face &#8212; as if he had so much to explain about this death. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when I was pregnant with my first child, there was an email circulating, listing 10 reasons on how to tell if you&#8217;re ready to have kids. One of them was to throw broken glass all over the floor, and walk barefoot over the pieces. The experience was to prepare you for the pain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/lego-storage/</link>
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		<title>His Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once his big brothers have left for school, leaving the kitchen in a scattered mess of opened cereal boxes, bowls of half-eaten cereal in soggy milk, sticky messes of milk spots all over the table, he pulls out his instruments and begins his morning work, creating worlds that are home to only his favorite colors.

Thankful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Your Flowerpots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peas love cold weather, and I would have planted them by now if not for the icy mass of snow covering my garden spot. At the same time, I was thinking about all that money I can’t resist spending on that first pack of cool-season annuals – petunias and violas for my flower pots.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/eat-your-flowerpots/</link>
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		<title>Grandma’s Button Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Her presence was a constant in my childhood. Hers was the big wide chest I snuggled on as an infant, the shoulder I cried on, the large lap I sat on with scraped knees and bee stings, and the sounding board against the bullies at school. She was my shield when my parents were too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hot Register</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first child up in the morning, (this varies by day) pulls the blanket off his bed, and drags it through the hallway and down the stairs to sit on the hottest spot in the house &#8212; the hot register. This black grate sits at the bottom of the stairs, just inside the front door. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/the-hot-register/</link>
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		<title>Name That Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all I can do to not share this scene with you via You Tube. But I&#8217;ll have to wait until next Friday. For now, you&#8217;ll have to guess. This should be fun. Below is the dialogue from a scene in a movie. See if you can recognize what movie this is from:
&#8220;Let’s not go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Snowmen Melt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: My son&#8217;s preschool teacher sent me these pictures &#8212; her daughter proudly made this dragon out of snow,

using green food coloring to make the stand out. (She said it was OK to publish these photos.) Puff is nothing but delightful.
I hope she sends me an email to explain how she got that neck to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/when-the-snowmen-melt/</link>
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		<title>Bigger Than Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The package arrived just as we were leaving to go back to school after his afternoon lunch break. There was no time to sit down with the box and open it, and bless his heart; he didn&#8217;t even ask if he could.
He simply said, &#8220;Can I tear off the packing label and bring it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/bigger-than-life/</link>
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		<title>Q-Tips of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four 10-second swabs was all it took to see if I&#8217;m a potential Bone Marrow donor for my friend Seth. The lobby was filled with people filling out forms of their own medical history, a table laden with a big iced-chocolate cake stood by, and stacks of sterilized swabs sat waiting in their envelopes. Over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/q-tips-of-love/</link>
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		<title>On Getting Flustered at the Post Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I notice that my body is beginning to react to stressful situations in uncomfortable ways. There is the tightness in my stomach, the heavy pounding of my heart – I don’t think my heart race increases, it just beats harder. My fingers suffer from lack of circulation, my arms and legs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/on-getting-flustered-at-the-post-office/</link>
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		<title>Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been relying on the slow cooker to create true comfort during these snow days. Instead of main dishes &#8212; I&#8217;ve been making desserts. The pudding cake is made right in the slow cooker &#8212; which translates into very little mess. The pudding settles on the bottom of the crock, so that when you scoop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/chocolate-peanut-butter-pudding-cake/</link>
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		<title>Built on the Ceiling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The snow brought another day off school. So, the boys built a fort.

that started on the ceiling.

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		<title>The snow comes in waves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the view from my third story window, just outside of my bedroom. The snow is falling heavy and thick, like rain. The snowstorms (I&#8217;ve lost count) have been coming in like waves across the ocean.

Six to nine more inches are currently on their way to cover the thick blanket of snow that already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.susiej.com/index.php/the-snow-comes-in-waves/</link>
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		<title>Not Addressed to Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Valentine said, &#8220;I love you this much&#8230;&#8221;

It was addressed to his brother.

This is my favorite Valentine.

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