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		<title>The Rigors of First Grade PE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Kate comes home today and tells me she has learned how to do push-ups.  She proudly gets down on the carpet in front of me and proceeds to push her upper body off the floor with her palms.
&#8220;That&#8217;s really good, honey, but you have to lift your legs, too,&#8221; I tell her.
Her next try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back At It!</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/09/07/back-at-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dust from August’s whirlwind of activities is settling.

Vacation Bible School was a Godsend.  I got a vacation from my children in the name of the Lord.  The only catch:  now they seem to think they need to know more about God and the Bible.  Huh.
Hubby’s medical procedure went well.
Girl Scout camp was hotter than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary Appointment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I planned our anniversary today.
Next Monday, hubby and I will have been married for 13 years.  Lucky Thirteen?  Not sure yet; ask me next summer.
You may recall me mentioning we’re headed to DisneyWorld later this year.  Well, we’ve I’ve been coordinating and scheduling approximately 17 different appointments into this month, trying to get all our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Happenings #691</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/31/random-happenings-691/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boat
Hubby is making progress on the boat.  This means we’re that much closer to actually taking it out on a body of water. 
The words “mixed emotions” fit nicely here.
Critters
Birdlets and woodchucks are scarce over the past week or so (near the house, anyway).  Luckily, hubby has come up a new way to fill this empty place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balance</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/27/balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says wishes can’t come true?
Today, thanks to Claire, who seems to be growing up right before my very eyes, I had a very interesting lunch.  She coated a flour tortilla with a mixture of peanut butter, honey, a dash of cinnamon, and sliced bananas.  I believe that the $20 fee for Kids Cuisine (a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elmer&#8217;s Virtual Bag-It-Forward</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/26/elmers-virtual-bag-it-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard to believe, but we are all about to start our last week of July.  I don&#8217;t know what that means to YOU, exactly, but in my house, little sparkly flashes of excitement start tickling my girls.  This is when our school district starts to mail their New-School-Year Welcome Packets, which means it&#8217;s when we find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Fledglings, Broken Toes, and Sailboats</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/25/of-fledglings-broken-toes-and-sailboats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, really, tell me:  who else do you know who would have a blog post about three such completely unrelated things? 
Yep, that’s what I thought. 
An Empty Nest
I went to check on the birds this morning before we headed off on errands, and here’s what I saw:
I took a picture of the empty nest, too, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Parenting Survival Skills</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/22/parenting-survival-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are always those slightly uncomfortable parenting moments when you have to weigh being utterly truthful with your child, and risk hurting her feelings, against padding the truth a little to be gentle with those tender young emotions.  From having parented my stepsons for years, I know such moments become more uncomfortable and more frequently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/21/growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week and one day ago, I shared a picture of the robin&#8217;s nest under my deck.  Serendipitously, I happened to catch hatching day.  You may recall an update on day 3 of birdlet growth here. 
I have neglected to check on the little buggers over the past day or two, so imagine my suprise when I went to look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What To Write When You Don’t Know What to Write</title>
		<link>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/20/what-to-write-when-you-don%e2%80%99t-know-what-to-write/</link>
		<comments>http://abrokencompass.com/2010/07/20/what-to-write-when-you-don%e2%80%99t-know-what-to-write/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly from a title as boring as that, you know this isn’t going to be one of my more entertaining or thought-provoking posts.
I have accomplished nothing of note lately.  That said, here’s the reporter-type (first-draft?) edition of recent abc family household innerworkings.
My chiropractor is back from vacation.  Praise the Lord.  I have had two and [...]]]></description>
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