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		<title>Happy 8th Birthday, Stella!</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2012/01/06/1463/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Stelly, Happy New Year! Happy Birthday!&#8230;.a month late. Why so late this year? Well, partially it has to do with the fact that within a period of 4 weeks our family pulled off two major holidays, a dance recital and two birthday parties. It&#8217;s like somehow our entire year&#8217;s activities get squished into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 8th Birthday, Sweet Girl!</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/12/09/happy-8th-birthday-sweet-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(more to come soon!)]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving the Nest</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/08/29/leaving-the-nest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it started with Kindergarten orientation &#8211; no, wait &#8211; make that soccer &#8211; no, no, no back that train up. Make that day camp. Day Camp is when we started seeing the writing on the wall. The writing that said &#8220;Oh Here Go Hell Come&#8221;. The last couple weeks with Little P have broken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the Memori in Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/30/putting-the-memori-in-memorial-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 21:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An hour after Stella and Steve left for the rollerskating party I get a phone call: &#8220;Um, so we just left the party. Stella fell pretty hard on her wrist. She&#8217;s being a trooper, but I&#8217;m thinking we should probably have it checked out.&#8221; So, 4 hours in the dearth of human existence &#8211; otherwise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Jungle Cats!</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/30/its-about-jungle-cats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://walscapades.com/?p=1410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;ll just let her tell the story&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Passing the Torch</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/22/passing-the-torch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 02:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday was Stella&#8217;s open house at school. Here is her self-portrait from the portrait wall; she obviously has her father&#8217;s ears. Then there was this little gem. I gave her some grief about the little brother crack, especially considering what happened next. We figured that, as long as we were there, it would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking in the rearview mirror.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/05/08/looking-in-the-rearview-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 15:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day. Normally, this is the part where I&#8217;d be going on a tirade about how my children have no concept of what it means to be civil to each other for more than a 1-hour interval &#8211; Mother&#8217;s Day be damned. And, as much as I love being able to utilize the internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami Friday</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/03/11/tsunami-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Japan was hit with one of the worst earthquakes in history. The repercussions from this earthquake were many, one of which was widespread tsunami warnings for the outermost edges of the west coast &#8211; Humboldt County being one of them. Schools were closed, evacuations were imposed, and everyone waited to see exactly what would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel to Her Fire</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/03/01/fuel-to-her-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the other notable items from this year&#8217;s annual snow-stravaganza was that Stella found her holy grail in the form of a precocious boy and his feline sidekick. Yes, that is my fancy way of saying she&#8217;s totally addicted to Calvin &#038; Hobbes. At some point, while rifling through the stacks of books up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And then there was snow</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2011/02/28/and-then-there-was-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2011/02/28/and-then-there-was-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://walscapades.com/?p=1349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the year. The year we would get Stella on the chair lift and the year we would get Porter on skis. And what do you know, but we did it! Or, they did it. Er, um, we facilitated it? Whatever. Stella slayed the chair-lift (with the one minor hiccup of nearly taking out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 7th Birthday, Stella</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2010/12/09/happy-7th-birthday-stella/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2010/12/09/happy-7th-birthday-stella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birthdays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Sis, Well, here we are. Year 7. A year of growth, and change and life altering moments. If I&#8217;d ever had a 7 year old before, I might be able to have a little perspective. However, being that I have no recollection of being 7 myself, I instead find myself proud, conflicted, confused, excited, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photography: Fun for the whole family</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2010/10/10/photography-fun-for-the-whole-family/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2010/10/10/photography-fun-for-the-whole-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night as we were picking apples and such, I let Stella use my camera. My real camera. I know, right? What was I thinking? This is a girl who drops, spills or misplaces things other people are holding. And although I followed her around in a constant pose of omygodpleasedon&#8217;tdropit, she ended up taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 1st, 2nd Game of the 3rd Season</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2010/09/15/the-1st-2nd-game-of-the-3rd-season/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2010/09/15/the-1st-2nd-game-of-the-3rd-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon arriving home, we stumbled back into a life fully underway &#8211; soccer season was no exception. Having already missed a handful of practices and the 1st game, we showed up at practice not exactly sure what to expect. This season, as it turns out, the coach is an old college-mate of Steve&#8217;s and he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stella starts the 2nd grade.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2010/09/03/stella-starts-the-2nd-grade/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2010/09/03/stella-starts-the-2nd-grade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are now the proud owner of a 2nd grader. Our model happens to come complete with the Virtual Teenager Upgrade, as witnessed by the conversation held after her first day: Me: &#8220;Soooooo, how was your first day?&#8221; Her: &#8220;OMYGOD, Ruby had this TOTALLY cute shirt on.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Wow. So how did you like your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got it. Read it. Elapsed time: 3 hrs 26 mins.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2010/07/21/got-it-read-it-elapsed-time-3-hrs-26-mins/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2010/07/21/got-it-read-it-elapsed-time-3-hrs-26-mins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also: has since read it 2 more times.]]></description>
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