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		<title>Peace in harmony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a tradition. For the third end-of-year in a row, I offer you this short musical vlog. To: You From: My sisters and I (we of the very expressive eyebrows) RE: Latin lesson:  Dona Nobis Pacem. Tami, Lori, Sheri May you be granted peace and may you, in turn, grant it to others.]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moment Monday: Happy happy joy joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ALI Alert: baby mentioned. Do not read if you are in a tender place.) One week ago&#8230; Sheri (my middle sister) and I are at a morning yoga class. She&#8217;s been living in Pennsylvania this year and it&#8217;s a real treat to spend time with just her, doing one of the things we really love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of the Luz: 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January: I do yoga in snow boots at 10,000 feet. February: I check off an item on my bucket list by participating in my first flash mob. March: My daughter asks if she&#8217;s a bastard. With the help of my readers, I&#8217;m able to answer her. April: My mother-in-law, Grandma Marshmallow, dies. May: I struggle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moment Monday: Daddy + daughter + (good)drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s Perfect Moment Monday lands directly in the aftermath of Christmas. I hope it has been a fantastic one for you, filled with love and joy and peace and family (and with luck those things go together!). ==================================== Tessa is having a little difficulty with math facts. Roger tries to help her grasp a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Blogger&#8217;s mug</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold! My birthday present from my husband. Blogging Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few All right, this isn&#8217;t exactly wordless, but I&#8217;M A BLOGGER AND I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY! To all three of you. Mug from Despair, Inc.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Exhale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Winter edition of Exhale magazine is out, and it&#8217;s well worth reading cover-to-cover (or pixel-to-pixel, as the case may be). And I&#8217;m not just saying that because I&#8217;m in it. Editor Kristin Binder and her team have done a fine job of collecting creative works from all over the ALI (Adoption/ Loss / Infertility) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My big announcement: Not paper pregnant but&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. Deciding to try August, 2008. Dear Diary. Today I publicly declared myself a Writer, in response to Melissa&#8217;s Wishing Tree post. I&#8217;m still new at this and I don&#8217;t really know how bloggers make a living at blogging, but surely people make a living writing. Right? &#160; II. Failed cycle Oct 2009. Dear Diary. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIPs: Very Important Posts from November 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a collection of posts from the past few weeks that have made me think long after I read them. Click over to see if they are meaningful to you, too. Heather gets a double nod this month, first with Overlapping Family and also with Why I Do This Part 3. In the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last day to sign up for Found book tour</title>
		<link>http://lavenderluz.com/2011/11/last-day-found-book-tour.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Club]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are only hours left to DECIDE to be part of this book tour, there&#8217;s still plenty of time to get and read the book before we discuss it in mid-January. Find details on this post about the book and the book tour. If you want to know more about captivating memoir take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moment Monday: Free Fall-in&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://lavenderluz.com/2011/11/perfect-moment-monday-free-fall-in.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori Lavender Luz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get a 70 degree day on a weekend in November, it&#8217;s prudent to chuck the To Do list and play hookey from your chores. Roger and I, on a whim, loaded up the kids and pretended we were tourists in our own city. We stopped at an urban park and let Tessa and [...]]]></description>
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