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	<description>A celebration of the world&#039;s most famous mother (Mary) by a much-less-famous one (me)</description>
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		<title>Lovely Labor Day &#8212; plus a book giveaway!  Enter here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Labor Day weekend!  This is noteworthy for a few reasons:
1.  It&#8217;s a three-day weekend (HOO wah!)
2.  This weekend is the tenth anniversary of the day that Scott and I met (awwww) at a Labor Day picnic in the city.  It took us a few more months of crossing paths before we actually went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6524</link>
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		<title>Splish, splash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a picture of my new holy water font.  Isn&#8217;t it nice?

Actually, &#8220;new&#8221; is not quite accurate.  Scott gave me this last Christmas, but we only got it up on the wall a few weeks back.  Since having kids, eight and a half months is how long it takes me to attend to any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6498</link>
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		<title>The broken record</title>
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Today in class, I was telling the students about one of my colleagues, who has amassed a fabulous collection of slides from his trips to England over the years.  Then a belated awareness of my audience crept in.
&#8220;How many of you have ever seen a slide projector?&#8221;  I asked.
In my class of 26 freshmen and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6477</link>
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		<title>Still dreaming</title>
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Years ago, my mom told me a story.  It was the late 1950s, and she and her church teen group were taking a trip cross-country to attend a youth conference.   When they got to a certain state (I can&#8217;t recall which one), and stopped at the hotel, all the kids couldn&#8217;t wait to jump [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6460</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t let me anywhere near your household appliances</title>
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Previously on this blog, I disclosed the fact that I dislike vacuuming.  I rarely do it, frankly.  Call it my dirty little secret.
But I have finally come to appreciate the value of a good Hoover.
Several weeks ago, I was pushing our heavy blue upright around the living room (guests were coming over, so I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6439</link>
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		<title>Another op&#8217;nin&#8217;, another show &#8212; plus prayer request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, on the commute, I put on the soundtrack to  the Cole Porter musical &#8220;Kiss Me, Kate.&#8221;  As I trundled along, getting myself psyched for Day One of a new year, it occurred to me that the first song on the soundtrack was pretty much THE PERFECT song for a teacher on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6431</link>
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		<title>In which I get myself into a positive frame of mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best parts of being a teacher on summer vacation is that you get to totally bypass the Sunday Evening Blues.  For an entire two months, you don&#8217;t have to deal with that flat, slightly depressed feeling that inevitably comes at the end of the weekend.
Alas, I&#8217;m now back singing the blues.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6413</link>
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		<title>Food for thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh Mary,
Nourisher of Him who nourished all,
Pray for us.
--Attributed to St. Jerome




Madonna Litta by DaVinci
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		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6406</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that time again &#8230;</title>
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So today is my last day of summer vacation.  Sigh. It was great while it lasted.
I really love teaching; don&#8217;t get me wrong.  But it&#8217;s hard to trade the leisurely pace of summer for the early morning alarm, the daily commute, the chronic grading.  I don&#8217;t think this is just a teacher thing, either; if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6396</link>
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		<title>&#8220;A place for everything &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and everything in its place.&#8221;
It&#8217;s a nice saying, but it sure doesn&#8217;t apply to my house.
Things just migrate around here.  I try to keep some semblance of order, but with an almost-four-year-old and an almost-two-year-old, it&#8217;s a losing battle.  Toys and clothes appear in the strangest places.  Matthew&#8217;s blankie often shows up in the bathroom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maryandme.org/?p=6382</link>
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