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		<title>a make-you-cry story</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2009/11/a-make-you-cry-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death
When 6-year-old Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer, she began hiding hundreds of little love notes around the house for her parents to find after she was gone.
Read the rest of the story HERE
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		<title>Budget Baking</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2009/06/budget-baking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I &#60;3 to bake.  I&#8217;m one of those bizarro people who ACTUALLY uses their bread machine.  I think I&#8217;m on my fifth machine. 
Anyways, these are the best baking ingredient deals that I know of, and I kick myself if I run out of either items and can&#8217;t make it to Gordon Food Service (GFS) and have to breakdown and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Joe Jonas really Mr Bean?</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2009/06/is-joe-jonas-really-mr-bean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a very strong resemblance!  Mr. Bean and Joe Jonas may in fact be one in the same.
  
My daughters disagree.  But I do find it strange that Joe Jonas is usually short one eyeball.
 
 
Or maybe THAT is his disguise that keeps us from seeing that he really is Mr. Bean!  Very sneaky!
Note to self: *STOP* watching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cookie frosting tip &amp; yummy photo</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2009/05/cookie-frosting-tip-yummy-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 02:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Mother&#8217;s Day Cookies:


I really like to bake and these are my &#8220;famous&#8221; sugar cookies (famous in my mind anyways).
My frosting tip for fancy but easy frosting:

Color 1/4 cup of frosting one color and another 1/4 cup a second color, but leave the majority of the frosting white.
Fill the frosting bag with a spoon of color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rename COSI Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2009/02/rename-cosi-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from COSI-Toledo Science  Center
 
We want your ideas!
You’ve known us as formerly as COSI Toledo, but now we need a new name.
We want your help!
What’s the best and most creative name for the new science center??
Let us know!!
Naming ideas can be submitted four ways.
    * Mail: “Naming Entry” to 1 Discovery Way, Toledo, OH. 43604.
    * [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Time</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/12/the-gift-of-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
from a fwded email


Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400. 
It carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keepno cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. 
 
What would you do? 
Draw out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C-ya Kwame!</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/09/c-ya-kwame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a political blog, not even close! I&#8217;m not even a Detroiter, so some might say I have no place even saying this.
But Kwame Kilpatrick, you should have quietly exited stage left months ago.
What sort of example is this for his children?Forthe children of &#8220;his&#8221; city? For the children outside of &#8220;his&#8221; city in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get up!  Get out!</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/07/get-up-get-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its the perfect summer day for doing something physical outside. And NOT having to sweat buckets!
We&#8217;re out of here as soon as snack time is done. And again after dinner.
So shoo! Come on! Get up! Get out! Go!
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		<title>Avatar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/?p=133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
We&#8217;ve watched Aang, Katara, Sokka and Zuko for a long time. Wikipedia says it first aired in 2005.That&#8217;s a long time!If you are 10, 8, and 4 years old, this show has been there for a long part ofyour life.
I think it was a great show. Complex, not the simple crap they usually dish out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Fourth Of July!</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/07/happy-fourth-of-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

(well technically its the 3rd of July, but the sentiment is the same)
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		<title>No more fried food!</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/06/no-more-fried-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No more fried food! Its too expensive!
I had to buy a container of corn oil at Kroger yesterday and it was $4.69! For 48 ounces! (I say &#8220;had to&#8221; because I usually buy items like that at Aldi)
And that was generic, Mazola was $7.99. That is a ridiculous price.
Hooray for ethanol and everything, but it [...]]]></description>
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