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		<title>Fostering Healthy Social Situations for Young Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With daughters 10, 12, and 14 I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought to how to help them build relationships with both genders while preparing for dating. In particular, I have a lovely 14-year-old daughter who is starting to notice boys, and they are starting to notice her too. You might even say there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Building Through the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post brought to you by Sears. All opinions are 100% mine. One of first lessons learned in building a custom home is to shop online whenever possible. A home has tens of thousands of working parts and running around from home store to deparment store to specialty store trying to gather them all is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thumbs Up for Nursing Pillows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post brought to you by Comfort and Harmony. All opinions are 100% mine. Now that my kids are older, I feel like the wise old sage mom. OK, old mom, but sometimes I pose as a wise sage. Truthfully, there is nothing like getting older to make you realize how many really dumb things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prophet Said to Plant a Garden. Right.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post brought to you by Miracle-Gro. All opinions are 100% mine. There&#8217;s an old Primary song you may have heard — probably depending on the culture where you live. It starts out, &#8220;The prophet said to plant a garden, so that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll do…&#8221; Now that&#8217;s a really nice sentiment, but it&#8217;s easier said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day Duality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 06:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobbie-Jean Comber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tale of Two Mothers Days The Snarky Mother’s Day How can it be Mothers Day when woken up at 6am or earlier Children begging you to eat breakfast in bed even when it is the worst thing in the world Forced to eat a cold breakfast that&#8217;s been repeatedly touched Copious amounts of handmade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics of Sustainable Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post brought to you by Scotts Miracle-Gro. All opinions are 100% mine. With the new religion of ecological awareness come many offshoots. In the gardening world the buzzword sustainable gardening. Indeed, I don&#8217;t know what &#8220;non-sustainable gardening&#8221; would look like. In fact, just look at this convoluted explanation in Wiki: Sustainable gardening (which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popcorn Ma&#8217;am?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 03:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I despise fundraising. Absolutely positively loathe it. From the magazine sales events at schools to the branches of a tree somehow worth ridiculous amounts of money simply because somebody made them into a circle and threw a couple bows or berries in the mix. I would rather someone bring a bucket door to door and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lonely Librarian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bobbie-Jean Comber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had my first experience of dread during an interview for a new calling at church. (Which we know that all good LDS should never have I had a split second waver of &#8220;Are you serious?&#8221; I&#8217;ve been a early morning seminary teacher , a bishop&#8217;s wife at 25, in a Relief Society presidency (while husband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pants, Prayer, Priesthood, Oh My!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/pants-prayer-priesthood-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the heart of it we are all feminists. I highly doubt any would choose to return to the days without voting privileges and the like. The nuances of religious feminism are complex. We have questions. We have concerns. It is quite often isolating to feel different, or be different, or think differently than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for the Invite</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/thanks-for-the-invite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever: not been in on the joke? been picked last for the team? been looked over for an invitation to an event that many around you were invited to? felt like you just didn&#8217;t belong? Many, probably most, of us go through things like this in our youth. We are familiar with that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equally Proud</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/equally-proud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=2438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies ahead of time Alison if my words have mischaracterized anything you meant The pondering your response set in motion was invaluable to me, thank you. In a recent discussion Alison&#8217;s response to a statement of mine got me thinking. It really got me thinking. Is it possible to be equally proud of the child who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Size Me</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/super-size-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/super-size-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was visually accosted by a ginormous television screen. I mean seriously large. No matter what I did I could not get away from the power of the thing. I would have needed serious blinders, and quite possibly a blindfold, to avoid the images and messages protruding towards me and worming their way into my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Women and Priesthood</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/on-women-and-priesthood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/on-women-and-priesthood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk recently about women&#8217;s issues in the church. I personally have spent much time in thought and prayer about these issues, trying to find where exactly I fall on the continuum. It seems that every time women become vocal about an issue in the church (wear pants to church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Ordination</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/speaking-of-ordination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son had the opportunity to attend his first Temple trip with the youth recently. He was nervously anticipating this next step in his cultural indoctrination. Our branch has a chasm between he and the other youth as far as age, so he was not among &#8220;friends&#8221;. The long drive (90-120 min. traffic dependent) did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Conference &#8211; Spring 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/general-conference-spring-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/general-conference-spring-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie Gardner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow begins the 2013 Spring General Conference. What are your traditions? Tips for getting the most out of conference? Any hopes/expectations for this conference? Here are mine: Traditions We always have a nice breakfast as a family both mornings of conference. We are on Eastern Time so conference doesn&#8217;t start until noon, giving us ample [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Mormons?</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/smart-mormons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Jensen &#8211; Tuesday, January 22, 2013 &#8211; reprinted with permission Mormons have intrigued me ever since Mike Huckabee back in 2007 claimed that Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers. With the recent election over, I decided to check out Mormons a bit more. My hope in doing this was to explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>While We Are On The Subject &#8230;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/while-we-are-on-the-subject/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[of cultural pressure; let me ask this. Is accepting callings doctrine, or masterfully manipulative cultural pressure? A lady once shared with me that she had declined a calling to be PP due to the Lord revealing to her, through fasting and prayer, that she should not accept it. Horrible things were said, and still are, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings: Service at any age</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/musings-service-at-any-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/musings-service-at-any-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angie Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Joy in the Journey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an obituary that contained an interesting tidbit. It talked about how this woman was called to serve as a young women&#8217;s president at the age of 75 and how this service blessed her life and those youth in her ward. It caused me to think back to another older sister who served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Easter Open Thread</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/happy-easter-open-thread/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/happy-easter-open-thread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s barely Easter morning. The authors here at Mormon Momma want to wish all of you a wonderful day, celebrating the atonement and resurrection of our Savior. Please share your Easter thoughts and/or traditions in this thread if you care to. We&#8217;d love to hear from you!]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Time Rush</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2013/spring-time-rush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing I enjoy more than streams filled with icy cold water born from melting snow. The stagnant stream bed is revived and life springs forth almost instantaneously. I can smell the coldness of the water and hear the gentle smoothing of the rocks as the water races to its destiny. It gives me [...]]]></description>
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