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		<title>Okay.</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/08/31/okay</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, thanks for all the well wishes and comments, dear friends. Once in a while, I&#8217;m reminded that I wrote the last post by my email inbox with someone asking if everything is okay and good, kind wishes. They really do make a difference because although I may not know some of you personally, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-3 days to our first summer camp-out!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/07/03/t-3-days-to-our-first-summer-camp-out</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, those of you who camp out all the time. This is the list I have. Please tell me what I&#8217;m missing.  FYI, we are camping at Lake Pearrygin in Eastern Washington. It&#8217;s a full service camp site with running water and showers and we are &#8220;car camping&#8221;, so we&#8217;re not really roughing it. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the love of shlocklate</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/06/20/for-the-love-of-shlocklate</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the drive home after a looooong day in the city today: Me (pensively): Skyler said &#8220;chocolate&#8221; today. Lokes (dazed): Huh? Me: She said &#8220;chocolate&#8221; when I gave her chocolate. Usually she says &#8220;shlocklate&#8221;, remember? Lokes: Oh&#8230; Me: And the other day she said &#8220;watermelon.&#8221; Lokes nods, smiling a little sadly. Me: Right? She used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve done right by her based on this very day</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/06/06/weve-done-right-by-her-based-on-this-very-day</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/06/06/weve-done-right-by-her-based-on-this-very-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8am: Delivery of complimentary rich chocolate birthday cake to hotel room. 9am: Sumptuous Mediterranean breakfast buffet at hotel restaurant. 10am: Shuttle to Magic Kingdom for a fun-filled day. 11am: Discovers all spots at Bibbadi Bobbadi Boutique (don&#8217;t know how to spell the damn thing) @ Magic Kingdom booked for the day. Meltdown ensues. 11.10am: Daddy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunny Shutter Sunday 05.04.08</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/05/04/sunny-shutter-sunday-050408</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 05:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t know the dad and son in the last picture but they were irresistible!]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/10/05/pictures</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the sore gums and pulsating ache in both jaws, I managed to pull a few smiles and puckered up to blow out some candles on a very delicious German chocolate cake (with a &#8216;mystery&#8217; German frosting which turned out to be glazed coconut shavings). My birthday wish? After the last few posts, you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A love letter to Daddy</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/05/27/a-love-letter-to-daddy</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 01:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raeven wrote this for her daddy today. Lokes has been away for almost three weeks. Drawing his face, she said, &#8220;Daddy has a very happy face.&#8221; And when she was done, she added. &#8220;And he&#8217;s also very ugly.&#8221; &#160; I&#8217;ll take ugly and happy over handsome and troubled any day (altho&#8217; honestly? Lokes is kinda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/04/24/random-thoughts</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I read, the more I&#8217;m convinced. Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, might&#8217;ve suffered from a very severe, untreated, never-diagnosed case of Selective Mutism? What would happen if enough of the troops in Iraq refuse to fight in the war? Lokes and I discussed this on the drive home yesterday. This morning, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is what grandparents are for</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/03/19/this-is-what-grandparents-are-for</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/03/19/this-is-what-grandparents-are-for#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around a year and a half ago, I blogged about why my parents should not be raising my kids. It is an opinion I&#8217;m sure not many people agree with, given how Malaysian society is all about family support and all that. In fact, it even sounded a little cruel. A few days ago, before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love is family</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/08/02/love-is-family</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/08/02/love-is-family#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t really have the mood to post anything today. Also didn&#8217;t have much to blog about. Took the girls for storytime at the library today, and then spent the afternoon reading and basking in the love of my babies. They never fail to make me feel loved just when I need it most, especially with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Saga of Saga Seeds</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/31/the-saga-of-saga-seeds</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/31/the-saga-of-saga-seeds#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Min from the SAHP Malaysia Yahoo group was just featured in The Star (one of two leading national English papers in Malaysia) where she was interviewed regarding her hobby &#8211; sewing &#8211; that she&#8217;d recently turned into a business. Branded Mama Min, these handsewn traditional games, some of them native to Malaysia,Â will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good spirits and new friends</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/31/of-new-friends-and-old-family</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my wonderful weekend of rest and relaxation, I am once again at peace with the world. And that&#8217;s no small feat. I remember just last week when the slightest small thing would tick me off. Another spot on the carpet. Rae not finishing her meals. Skyler&#8217;s incessant whining. Today, I am suddenly Mother Teresa. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psst. Wanna score some chairs?</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/25/psst-wanna-score-some-chairs</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/25/psst-wanna-score-some-chairs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we came to the US, I had envisioned a lot of things about our new life here. Some of these things didn&#8217;t really pan out. Firstly, we thought the weather would always be cool and windy. I knew about the famous Seattle drizzle (or &#8216;light rain&#8217; as the Americans call it here) and didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not so atheist after all</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/24/not-so-atheist-after-all</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we&#8217;d come to the States, I&#8217;ve become a little more, um, religious than I used to be. In that I would make sure to pray, especially with the girls at bedtime. I figured that now would be a good a time as any to introduce to Rae the concept of Someone being up there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jenn &amp; Lia Podcast #001: And Baby Makes Three!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/18/the-jenn-lia-podcast-001-and-baby-makes-three</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/18/the-jenn-lia-podcast-001-and-baby-makes-three#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, finished with all the editing and fine-tuning and what not! A little background: The Jenn &#038; Lia Podcast is a tiny little Malaysian talk show with women, particularly mothers, on a range of topics from parenting to relationships to cooking, for women of all ages and professions. Our guests are drawn from Lia&#8217;s Yahoo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Beach, here we come!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/08/long-beach-here-we-come</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to let y&#8217;all know that I&#8217;ll be gone with the family for our first official vaca in the US tomorrow, so no updates for a while. Hopefully I&#8217;ll come back rejuvenated (right&#8230;) and full of stories of our road trip. FYI, we did our first Jenn &#038; Lia Show Skypecast yesterday entitled &#8220;And Baby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lazy Mother&#8217;s Day weekend</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/05/15/a-lazy-mothers-day-weekend</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/05/15/a-lazy-mothers-day-weekend#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 14:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So The Hubby is home and I had myself a rather lazy weekend, my Mother&#39;s Day gift apparently. For the first time in years, I woke up right before noon. Didn&#39;t know I still had it in me to sleep that late, but God, it was good. Except for the few grisly nightmares preceding my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sick house</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/05/11/a-sick-house</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/05/11/a-sick-house#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 14:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rae has been having the sniffles and a cough since Camp Gilead. Coughed through out last night and proceeded to wet the bed this morning because I stuffed her with so much water. Sigh. Come home soon daddy. We miss you loads. On the other hand, the crazy, weepy fog has lifted. I actually feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oyster Sauce, and the best cook in the world</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/04/21/oyster-sauce-and-the-best-cook-in-the-world</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/04/21/oyster-sauce-and-the-best-cook-in-the-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve always thought my mother&#39;s the best cook in the world. Her Braised Mushroom Chicken in Oyster Sauce. Her Chicken and Potatoes in Oyster Sauce. Chicken and Ginger in Oyster Sauce. Sunny Side Up Eggs with Oyster Sauce. Yes, Oyster Sauce was a big part of my mother&#39;s cuisine. And my sister and I ate [...]]]></description>
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