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		<title>One Bag Each (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we did it. We stuck with one bag each, the Spooner, the car seat, and a blankey. At the last minute the boy decided to wear his robe instead of a hoodie, but that and the blanket could be rolled up and attached to my backpack so it was no biggie (it’s a thick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=257&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Bag Each (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading a few minimalist blogs lately (2012, my year of letting go!) so I am trying an experiment: minimalist travel. Tomorrow the Bootie Boy and I are off to San Diego to see my brother and his sweet family, and we each get one back pack to take with us. That’s it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=252&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Intervention: Does it Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[**Please forgive my deviation from such vital topics as movie night, shoe shopping, road trips, book reviews, cake raffles, and water parks. Today I am using the blog for school. Read on…. Cool RTI Graphic: The Quickie Wiki Definition of RTI (translation: of course it’s not that simple): A method of academic intervention used in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=244&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well, Don&#8217;t You Look Comfortable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t actually like clothes. I&#8217;m not saying I want to run around naked, because that would be horrible for everyone, but I&#8217;m just saying I really don&#8217;t enjoy the consideration of what to wear, especially if it involves matching, accessorizing or paying attention to current haute couture. I never think about what all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=241&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will come a time when Friday night will not mean movie night. There will be no dragging out of the blow up mattress so we can sleep in the living room, no careful lining up of tiny cups full of skittles, sour patch kids,  M&#38;Ms and sour ropes. No big bowl of popcorn and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=236&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gather Around the Family Table. Oh Wait, We Don&#8217;t Know How.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Table, a Definition from Webster: 1.  An article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table. 2.  Such a piece of furniture specifically used for serving food to those seated at it. 3.  A group of persons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=233&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knows what the boy might come up with on any given day. His brain is always percolating. Always. Bootie Boy: &#8220;I made this card for you Mom.&#8221; I read the card out loud: Mom. I love you. Cuz you ar nise.  &#8221;Thank you buddy, it&#8217;s beautiful. You did a great job,&#8221; I say. BB: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=230&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cake Raffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Fall Festival at the Bootie Boy&#8217;s school, there are twelve cool Halloween-themed cakes to be raffled off. We buy two raffle tickets to try to win a cake.  There must be about 100 tickets in the little coffee can. Little Tommy is all excited to win a cake. He keeps asking me when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=221&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Cable, My Old Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really do want to be one of those people who doesn&#8217;t like to watch TV. Or who is so busy pursuing a creative passion that Top Chef Season 9 and 3 football games on Sunday holds no interest for them because you know, they are at the pottery wheel or whatever.  I am in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=216&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say Yes to Water Park</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the water park we met a solo mom, whose kids had declined the offer of a day of slides and sun, snow cones and man-made waves. Her 17-year old reportedly responded, &#8220;No Mom, I actually have friends.&#8221;  Her 11-year old did not want to go for reasons unknown, so she hit it alone. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sideporchshorts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14621341&amp;post=213&amp;subd=sideporchshorts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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