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		<title>What&#8217;s red and green and puts a smile on your face?</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/06/25/whats-red-and-green-and-juicy</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/06/25/whats-red-and-green-and-juicy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not Santa, sorry. Even better: The best part about living in the country &#8211; especially where we are &#8211; is that you never need to drive too far for berry-pickin&#8217; in the summer. We made sure not to be too greedy this season. Last summer we ended up with two full gallon bags that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A whole new level of pointless</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/04/15/a-whole-new-level-of-pointless</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/04/15/a-whole-new-level-of-pointless#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s GOT to be an award out there somewhere for parents who have to clean vomit and shit off carseats, carpet, bedsheets and cushions two days straight. Lokes and I used up a whole bottle of Oxy Clean and Febreeze (Extra Strong) each, just cleaning up after our three-year old, who&#8217;s managed to contract a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sewing seats of love</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/04/11/sewing-seats-of-love</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was messing around with the sewing machine, creating sleeves for our new notebooks when I got it in my head to use the leftover fabric to create cushion covers. Don&#8217;t you just love the batik print? Gosh, I&#8217;m such a 50s housewife&#8230; Technorati Tags: sewing, crafts, hobbies]]></description>
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		<title>Kaya, at long last!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/03/23/kaya-at-long-last</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who troll Facebook or Twitter, you may have glimpsed that a certain Malaysian mother living in a certain small town in Washington has been trying her hand at making kaya, Malay for coconut egg jam. This Malaysian delicacy has in recent weeks plagued my every waking moment, even as I sneezed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another post about cleaning. This is a mommy blog after all.</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/01/23/another-post-about-cleaning-this-is-a-mommy-blog-after-all</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2008/01/23/another-post-about-cleaning-this-is-a-mommy-blog-after-all#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my biggest Mommy challenges is keeping my temper in check. My friends may be shocked by this since I&#8217;ve always been pegged as &#8216;easy-going&#8217; or &#8216;cincai&#8217;, in Malay-Chinese speak. The truth is, I get pissed off just like everyone else. Perhaps even more frequently so since I&#8217;ve become a parent. Perhaps the biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s so good it&#8217;s ill</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/12/04/its-so-good-its-ill</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;ve become an aunty when you&#8217;re actually starting to enjoy housework. Remember when? Never thought I&#8217;d see the day. What the hell is happening to me? I spent all day yesterday washing the bathrooms, vacuuming the carpets, changing bedsheets, rearranging drawers and when it was all done, I retired to my couch with [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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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>Puke, snow and insomnia</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/02/28/puke-snow-and-insomnia</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling a little out of sorts these last few days. Sleep was, is fitful, as though I have unfinished business. Which is, of course, true. Laundry to iron/fold. Books to finish. Half-assed stories to correct. Raeven spent the better part of yesterday throwing up. She&#8217;s fine now, just a stomach bug that made her tummy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick poll</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/02/09/a-quick-poll</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2007/02/09/a-quick-poll#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are five kinds of house work you HATE to do most, in descending order? Here&#8217;s mine: Changing the sheets: My mom and mother-in-law both agree that bedclothes should be changed once a month. Well, screw that. This has got to be The Most Annoying piece of housework on my list and should be relegated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enable cookies!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/11/30/enable-cookies</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/11/30/enable-cookies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing says &#8220;I&#8217;m maternal&#8221; like&#160;baking cookies. Submitting to the clichÃ©, I agreed to try my hand at making a few&#160;dozen for our town&#8217;s annual tree lighting&#160;tomorrow. Needless to say, they completely ruined my diet the last couple of days. It&#8217;s a conspiracy! Raeven did the icing. Aren&#8217;t they perfect? The no-brainer recipe is at my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A matter of focus</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/11/05/a-matter-of-focus</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/11/05/a-matter-of-focus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Because, you see, I do have a job. It concentrates the mind.&#8221; For some reason, this line in a dialogue in Claire Messud&#8217;s The Emperor&#8217;s Children, jumped out to me this morning as I was enjoying a little alone time in the can (a rarity. Lokes had the kids downstairs, breakfasting). If I were to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five things I hate about being a stay-at-home mom</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/08/03/five-things-i-hate-about-being-a-stay-at-home-mom</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/08/03/five-things-i-hate-about-being-a-stay-at-home-mom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have officially run out of things to blog about. That or my mind is a little preoccupied these days with: 1. finishing that damn book. It is seriously slow moving. If not to see how Kate is going to end up and if Aron will really find out his mother is still alive and/or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trapped (meals, breaks and holes provided)</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/08/01/trapped-meals-breaks-and-holes-provided</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/08/01/trapped-meals-breaks-and-holes-provided#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s Self Portrait Challenge (reading Karli&#8217;s reminded me of it &#8211; thank God I have you on my feed, babe. I keep forgetting!) is about Enclosed Spaces. Here&#8217;s mine: Although I&#8217;ve been a mom for four years, I think I&#8217;ve only just discovered the verities of motherhood, and what it can do to someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Superwoman Syndrome Podcast, now up!</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/29/the-superwoman-syndrome-podcast-now-up</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/29/the-superwoman-syndrome-podcast-now-up#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a really good show this morning where we talked about the dreaded Superwoman Syndrome, where a woman tries to do everything: be mom, career woman, wife and daughter. We had Patsy and Topaz with us this morning and talked a little about how we are all control freaks to a degree and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeans and dreams</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/07/26/stay-at-home-mom</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times in one&#8217;s life as a stay-at-home mother, where one is faced with sudden bouts of self reflection and worrisome contemplation about one&#8217;s future. The experience is not unlike finding and trying an old pair of your favourite jeans you know may be too small. You sit on your bed, jeans in hand,Â daring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kid cuisine</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/06/23/kid-cuisine</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than one person from home (one of which is my mother-in-law, who poses the question to me once everytime I call home to check on the old folks) has asked me this past week what my kids and I eat everyday here in the States. It&#39;s as though the US is this big black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The I&#8217;mperfect Cook</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/05/06/the-imperfect-cook</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 03:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in years, my dinner bombed this evening. I wanted to make chicken chop (a Malaysian dish of chicken drumstick deboned and grilled/fried and then topped with gravy) but I had only breast meat, so it turned out hard and dry. The Betty Crocker gravy I bought was bland. I ended up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse me, where can I buy some time?</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/04/26/excuse-me-where-can-i-buy-some-time</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/04/26/excuse-me-where-can-i-buy-some-time#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was one of my busiest days here in Redmond since my in-laws went home. Didn&#39;t help that I&#39;m sleeping later everyday because I&#39;m just so tired. Reminds me I need to get my fit up soon or I&#39;m just going to collapse nicely in the middle of making dinner. Because Rae&#39;s classmate has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret to Successful Stay-at-Home Parenting</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/04/03/the-secret-to-successful-stay-at-home-parenting</link>
		<comments>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/04/03/the-secret-to-successful-stay-at-home-parenting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There used to be a time when the roles of a housewife and her working husband were, more or less,&#160;defined. The wife did all the housework and took care of the kids and her man. The man brought home the bacon, period. Sometimes, they&#39;d mow the lawn and fix the faucets, but that was it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quarterly review of&#8230;my life</title>
		<link>http://theimperfectmom.com/2006/03/30/quarterly-review-ofmy-life</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jennemede</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#39;s been over three months that we&#39;ve made The Big Move (which will be unceremoniously but very fashionably shortened to &#39;TBM&#39; from this post onwards). It&#39;s a good time to take stock of the good and the bad. I&#39;ll start with the bad. 1. I don&#39;t have my old friends. I feel blessed for [...]]]></description>
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