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		<title>Shopping with small children: a busy mama&#8217;s low-down.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have since given birth to two more beautiful, personality-filled daughters. Through many a tearful and harried shopping trip, I have gained a good deal of humilty and compassion for my fellow parent-shoppers, as well as quite a few practical tricks for making the weekly jaunt to the grocery more pleasant for the whole family. I've listed several suggestions that we've found to be tried-and-true boredom busters and compromises to make sure you make it home with all your groceries <em>and</em> your hair. 

1. <strong>Shop with a list, ordered to fit the layout of your grocery. </strong>

This is my #1 criteria for a semi-harmonious shopping trip! Nothing invites frustration more than trying to focus and plan on the fly while simultaneously trying to parent. It's almost impossible. You're bound to forget something or lose your cool if your brain is pulled in two directions without a mission. If you're like me, you need all the extra brain power you can get, anyway! Lists and a good game-plan are our friends. They keep us efficient, and get us in and out of the store in a time frame that's realistic for everyone. 
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		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/10/30/shopping-with-small-children-a-busy-mamas-low-down/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging has totally gotten away from me again, and I keep promising myself that to make it up to me, I&#8217;ll let my first blog back be something fantastic. But that, dear readers, is the perfect way to never blog again. So here&#8217;s my not so earth-shaking return to blogdom. I&#8217;ve gotten back into cloth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/10/19/261/</link>
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		<title>Two-fer Toofers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teeth around here tend to travel in packs of two or four when they arrive, and Miss Eva is now no exception. Last weekend, she sprouted her first pearly clearish-white! And now, apparently, the other is struggling to make it&#8217;s home beside it&#8217;s twin. Poor love is gnawing and waking and fussing, even as she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/09/23/two-fer-toofers/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mothers first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.&#8221; -Charlotte Mason Nature is in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/09/18/257/</link>
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		<title>Scarfie Goodness</title>
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		<title>I love me a little summer.</title>
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		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/08/31/i-love-me-a-little-summer/</link>
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		<title>How to make a glass of lemonade, by Ess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, squeeze the lemons into the cup (only the juice). I used 2 and a half lemons, five halves. Then, you have to add some sugar! My sugar was on a plate. I used just a handful. You have to add a little bit of water. Just half a cup. Then you have to mix [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/08/31/how-to-make-a-glass-of-lemonade-by-ess/</link>
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		<title>Recycled baby hoodie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice a year, my mom and I hit the consignment sales for the girl&#8217;s clothes for the next two seasons&#8230;I&#8217;d say it was completely out of frugality, but I have to admit that along with being able to clothe 3 girls for $150 dollars or so, it&#8217;s one of the dizzingly happy perks of raising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/08/27/recycled-baby-hoodie/</link>
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		<title>Safest Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, recently, as I was laying down baby Eva for a nap, I heard the suspicious sound of sticky giggles floating down the hall from the kitchen. It suddenly occurred to me that after a breakfast of waffles, I had forgotten to put away the bottle of maple syrup. Crud muffins. After a quick effort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/08/25/249/</link>
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		<title>My girls. &lt;3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been putting off blogging for several weeks now, due to stomach bugs/laundry/craftiness/summer cooking/etc, and now all my blogging topics have piled up. I don&#8217;t even know where to start! So I&#8217;ve decided to load you down with happy, list-y goodness. Thing 1: Indian Food. Nate ordered a couple of Indian cookbooks, and we&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mommypress.com/threelittleotters/2009/08/20/my-girls-3/</link>
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