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		<title>Recycle Your Crayons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Â 
This blog post explains how to melt your junk-y crayons together.Â  Using a cookie cutter, you can make shapes that would be easier to grip/grasp.
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		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/12/how-not-to-take-the-kids%e2%80%99-picture-for-your-holiday-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Ten tips for mom and dad-

Pick a good time of day when the kids are fed and nobody is too tired. 
Keep the card you are sending the photos in mind (if the picture needs to be up and down, remember that!)
Say a THANK YOU for digital cameras.  (Or buy 4 rolls of film if you haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gingerbread House Alternatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the idea of a gingerbread house.  But I don&#8217;t like the taste of gingerbread or all the measuring and cutting and WORK to have a boards of gingerbread to make a house with.
We will make &#8221;alternative&#8221; gingerbread houses.

We make ours with a Tim Horton&#8217;s snackpack timbits box for the base (much sturdier than just the graham [...]]]></description>
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		<title>from December Monroe Parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
If it hasn&#8217;t taken over your life yet, it will soon.  
Seeping into every moment of your day, taking up all your walls and floor space, occupying your thoughts and filling your to-do list…It’s the holiday season!
            And it’s taking over my mom blog too!
            December is one of the best times to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Have a Warm Snowball Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or a summer snowball fight for that matter!
Supplies needed:

many, many bags of puff balls (aka big craft balls, the 2&#8243; diameter size)


 
Once you have these balls, you can have an in-the-living-room snowball fight however you want (teams, divide the room into section, attack mom). 
Nobody will have frozen fingers, nobody will pick up yellow snow, nobody will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip: Organizing Hats and Gloves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With four kids, each with at least three sets of hats and of gloves (one regular set, one for when the regular set is left at school, one set for playing in the snow) and with the girls being close in size and the boys being close in size, and with the fact that the universe will collapse if someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone&#8217;s done it before&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/11/everyones-done-it-before/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; you know, &#8220;misplaced&#8221; something.  Heaven forbid you say its l &#8211; o &#8211; s &#8211; t  .  Because that makes it true or something.  The l-word means it&#8217;s gone and it ain&#8217;t coming back!  So let&#8217;s just be optimists and say the item is &#8220;missing&#8221;.
Car keys?  Commonplace.  Eyeglasses?  Typical.  Purse?  Understandable. 
How about a big 30 gallon plastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome mazes!</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/10/awesome-mazes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Found this while trying to keep a too-sick-for-school-but-not-sick-enough-to-just-lay-and-rest child busy.
http://www.mazoons.com/Mazes.htm (grades 3 and up I would say &#8211; - but under age 33 because these looked PRETTY difficult)
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		<title>Mnemonic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mne- what?
You know, neh-mahn-ick, memory techniques you can use to memorize important information
Like Roy G Biv (colors of the rainbow), and Every Good Boy Does Fine (music notes), and  Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach (classifying living organisms).
http://www.eudesign.com/mnems/_mnframe.htm
http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnemonics.html
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		<title>a nighttime walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Its great time of year to take the kids on a twilight walk.  The weather is just right in the fall and the sun is setting early enough that you can be out in the moonlight before bedtime on a school night.
Try it!  Take just 15 minutes to walk outside after the sun has set.  Either as a whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tip: taking your kids out&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/09/tip-taking-your-kids-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have more than one child, when you take them out consider dressing them all in the same color shirt.
That way when you scan the crowd of kids,  you can zoom in on just the ones in blue (or white or black, etc) shirts and count up your children.
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		<title>Backpack Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/09/backpack-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides being an overly heavy bag weighing down your kids transporting an excessive amount of stuff back and forth from school, backpacks are also a chance to teach independence and responsibility.
Have your kids pack their own backpack.  If they put their snack in, they&#8217;re less likely to &#8220;forget&#8221; they have a snack and the teacher won&#8217;t call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES &#8211; a different kind of smart</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/moms/2008/09/multiple-intelligences-a-different-kind-of-smart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multiple Intelligences is Howard Gardner’s psychological theory about people and their different types of intelligences (logical, visual, musical, etc.). 
There are eight intelligences that each person has. A person maybe has two or more dominant intelligences.  What are the eight intelligences?

Verbal/Linguistic
People who has verbal/linguistic intelligences are naturally good with writing or speaking and memorization.
Logical/Mathematical
People with Logical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scheduling Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes its so hard for a group of moms (or dads) to schedule a meeting time, chat time, or teleconference when everyone can attend.
Check out this site: http://www.meetingwizard.com
&#8220;Put an end to email and telephone tag.  Schedule your meetings with ease.&#8221;
The basic service is free.  Its marketed towards businesses and such, but there is no reason why the [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emilie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because it was our third attempt at getting our cell phone plan updated at the Verizon store (in front of Lowe&#8217;s on Telegraph), I took the kids to Maggie Moo&#8217;s to kill the time while my husband waited for the phones to be activated.
OMG that is some expensive ice cream.  Two baby cones + three [...]]]></description>
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