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	<title>Doodaddy &#187; exhaustion</title>
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		<title>A Little Bit Broken</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2010/05/19/a-little-bit-broken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re supposed to be in the middle of our long, foggy summer by now but the rain won’t stop. And whether it’s down to that or the fact that my coffee maker isn’t working, I don’t know, but things are a bit melancholy around here today. Fern is a playdate junkie. Every night before bed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting children to work as housekeepers</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2010/04/15/putting-children-to-work-as-housekeepers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You really have to clean your room every day or else it gets ridiculous,” said my daughter. Yep, read that again: said my daughter. Fern was talking to a friend in the car, gloriously oblivious to my presence as only four-year olds can be oblivious. Like when kids hide their face in a couch cushion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad, Worse, Worsted</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/09/01/bad-worse-worsted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My bad days probably don’t seem that bad from the outside: I bribe Fern with salty snacks to be quiet while I put the baby to bed, I miss a hair-brushing or a book-reading. Big deal, right? Channeling me? Then there are the worse days, when I’ve stayed up too late and now there’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toddlerstilsken</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/06/09/toddlerstilsken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s after midnight and I&#8217;m wiping down the dining room table for the third time today. At three, Boo has mastered the skills necessary for fine dining but remains less interested in demonstrating said table manners than in performing creative food experiments. Boo pretends she’s laundry to get my attention. Tonight, I find that she&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood and Crushing</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/06/03/blood-and-crushing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things were going fine on Boo&#8217;s first day of school until the blood. Sure, there was the usual craziness of introductions. Meeting a dozen new people (most of whom I&#8217;ll know for the next two or twenty years) was a tough memory game even for me. For three-year old Boo, all the names and faces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My daughter, the herding dog</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/05/15/my-daughter-the-herding-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever known a border collie? I met one once at a cafe whose life revolved around fetch. The entire hour or so I was there she spent in retrieving the ball her owner tossed for her about five feet away &#8212; over and over and over again. I bet she&#8217;d done it five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Longest Month</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/04/27/the-longest-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My ladies. Boo toppled off a booster seat, helpless. Her gyrating arms reached for me but missed &#8212; this is a scene I still replay in my head daily, even now, a month later. I was too slow, dull, and exhausted to save my own daughter from crashing to the ground. Thanks, O ye Fates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re so good with kids. Now stop.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/09/youre-so-good-with-kids-now-stop/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/09/youre-so-good-with-kids-now-stop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At dinner, my mother-in-law gave me the seat with no escape. You know the one, where you’re between two people in the middle of the long side of the table, squeezed up so close to the wall that there’s no egress except down and between Uncle K’s legs. But the dog had that territory reserved: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurfacing</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/04/resurfacing/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2009/03/04/resurfacing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bath time means I catch up on my e-mail. I’m about four weeks behind. My life has again undergone one of those major changes that makes you re-sort every priority. And all I can think about is the laundry. Becoming a stay-at-home dad to Boo three years ago was major, sure, but for all that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes Two (To Kick My Ass)</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/02/18/it-takes-two-to-kick-my-ass/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2009/02/18/it-takes-two-to-kick-my-ass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I’ve only had two weeks as a stay-at-home dad to siblings but already I’m worried I’m losing Boobaby, by degrees, to the rigors of the new job. My relationship with my older daughter becomes more strained with every baby-feeding and laundry load. Woebegone Wabbit Taking care of two kids (and a house and a [...]]]></description>
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