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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official today is the start of jam season, I&#8217;m starting off my season with a delightful rhubarb jam. 1 lb chopped rhubarb 1 cup sugar squeeze of lemon juice Let the sugar and rhubarb hang out for a day to break down the fibrous rhubarb then cook until you get the set you are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=694&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The difference between &#8216;normal&#8217; chickens and bantams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh my goodness these chickens are huge!  Last year I had bantams as chicks and they took forever to mature, it seemed like they were babies forever, which was awesome, these chickens are three and a half weeks old and are chickens, and are ready to get outside already.  Last year in our old house [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=692&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Rough Few Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had a rough couple of days here, my son ended up getting four stitches in his thumb on Monday afternoon after getting his thumb caught in a picture frame while helping daddy with our new art.  On Tuesday he fell walking our dog and scraped up his other hand and just this morning he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=690&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communicating with my son-Baby Signs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We finally have signs, just two and very inconsistent but it&#8217;s amazing that he is starting to communicate with us and let us know what he wants.  His first sign was all done, meaning he&#8217;s done eating and wants to go play and just this morning he signed eat letting me know he wanted more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=688&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding &#8216;Good&#8217; Milk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So with this pregnancy, I&#8217;ve really been trying to do the right thing for the baby.  I just finished reading Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby&#8217;s First Foods and it really got me thinking about diet.  I&#8217;ve been reading a bunch of books about what really is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=677&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some New Art</title>
		<link>http://softcrunchymom.com/2013/01/31/some-new-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a second baby on the way, the hubby and I decided it was high time to get some grown-up art in the house, so we checked out Etsy, I love that site tons of great art at really affordable prices.  Our decor is pretty black and white and since we just moved into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=672&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Reviews for a Stay at Home Mom</title>
		<link>http://softcrunchymom.com/2013/01/29/performance-reviews-for-a-stay-at-home-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Us stay at home mom types don&#8217;t really get a whole lot of feedback on how we are doing, this can be both nice (no sweating those annual reviews) and hard (how am I doing).  I think a lot of moms use comparison as their marker to see how they are stacking up against moms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=669&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chicks are Here</title>
		<link>http://softcrunchymom.com/2013/01/28/chicks-are-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I picked up my new baby chicks and they have been so much fun!  My son has absolutely loved watching them play and I love how gentle and curious he is about the new little beings in our guest bedroom.  I had to leave my old chickens in Colorado with the people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=666&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Cold Remedies</title>
		<link>http://softcrunchymom.com/2013/01/25/natural-cold-remedies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ugh-we&#8217;ve been hit with a bug and the whole family is congested with a cough-yuck!  In the past I would reach for the hard stuff-Nyquil, Dayquil, Sudafed anything to make me feel better and I&#8217;d end up with my cold symptoms going away but feeling super loopy.  Since I&#8217;m prego and my son is still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=664&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://softcrunchymom.com/2013/01/23/how-to-buy-a-pig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we used to live in Denver I would buy 1/16 of a buffalo every few months to keep our freezer stocked with healthy grass fed meat.  In Portland, Buffalo are a little more scarce and they take their food a little more seriously.  I found a farmer who just happened to have slaughtered a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softcrunchymom.com&#038;blog=31655400&#038;post=660&#038;subd=softcrunchymom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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