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		<title>Crazy consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes parents have to dole out consequences to deal with misbehavior. But doing so while also nurturing the relationship can sometimes be challenging.  Recently I came across some humorous consequences on a blog called Madsen&#8217;s Memories and decided to make a list of my own, using some of her ideas and some of my own.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Adoption Adventure</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/14/adoption-you-have-ten-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you considering stepping out into the world of adoption?&#160; Here are the posts I&#8217;ve written over the years, telling how we ended up adopting six kids when we already had four by birth, along with thoughts about issues we and other families face along the adoption journey. Our Adoption Story 1998, 2000 Our boys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Momma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have so many good memories of you, Mom.&#160; Normal&#160; mom- memories, of you cooking in the kitchen, making granola and pancakes and lasagna and sometimes the dreaded liver and onions.&#160; Of you making beds and painting walls and rearranging furniture, and watering your coleus and African violets on the shelf in front of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday giveaway: ProBar Fruition</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/12/saturday-giveaway-probar-fruition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 07:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owlhaven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;ve got an energy bar giveaway for you!  Probar Fruition bars are gluten free and come in a variety of flavors including blueberry, cranberry-raspberry, and my personal favorite, chocolate orange. These bars are chewy and sweet and remind me somewhat of the center of a fig newton.  Two of my pickiest kids were unimpressed&#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New paint for a bedroom</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/10/new-paint-for-a-bedroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 04:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owlhaven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in 2006, the downstairs corner bedroom was pink and little-girlish.  After our older girls, now 14 and 16, had lived in the room a couple years, they asked about repainting the room in a different color.  I said sure&#8211; I&#8217;m always up for a change.  But getting sisters to agree on things can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming college kids home for the summer</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/09/welcoming-college-kids-home-for-the-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owlhaven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a funny coincidence today, I ended up talking to 3 different people about the difficulties of easing a college kid back into the family during the summertime when they come home from the dorms.&#160; I remember being at that stage myself.&#160; After living on my own, first in a dorm and then in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Currently at the Owlhaven</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/08/currently-at-the-owlhaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 21:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owlhaven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John and the two youngest girls (9 and 7)&#160; are getting the pool cleaned out and ready to go for the summer, much to the delight of the girls.&#160; Any minute I suspect they&#8217;ll be coming in asking for popsicles and swimsuits.&#160; Nevermind that it is only 70-something and the foot or so of greenish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe: Hash Brown Combo</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/07/recipe-hash-brown-combo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owlhaven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winner of the last Mother&#8217;s Day giveaway is #32 Michelle of My Blessed Home.  Congrats!! &#160; ~ When John and I were newlyweds, we occasionally went to a downtown diner for breakfast. They had the best potatoes in town. This recipe (from Family Feasts for $75 a Week) is my adaptation of their recipe. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/06/sunday-286/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 07:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owlhaven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[© Mary Ostyn for Owlhaven, 2012. &#124; Permalink &#124; No comment &#124; Add to del.icio.us Post tags: `]]></description>
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		<title>Last Mother&#8217;s Day Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://www.owlhaven.net/2012/05/05/last-mothers-day-giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 07:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owlhaven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenthood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my blog is so very much geared for mothers, I am thrilled to have so many lovely goodies for you to win in these weeks before Mother&#8217;s Day. The winner of the scarf/coffee/muffin book giveaway is commenter #67 Lesley.  Today I have one last Mother&#8217;s Day giveaway &#8212; a set of two inspirational and [...]]]></description>
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