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		<title>Random Thursday Thoughts - The Madness That Is BlogHer</title>
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I&#8217;m not going to go on and on about BlogHer after this post. Not that we didn&#8217;t have a blast but in the previous years when I wasn&#8217;t there, I remember getting sick of hearing people whine on about what to wear and OMGAAAAAAAAAWD how much fun it was and blah blah blah. *Sniff*
So my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6190</link>
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		<title>Teach Them Well And Let Them Lead The Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tampa is the city I have called home for the past seven years. We have a great house on the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. The yard is huge and the pool is beautiful, we have remodeled and landscaped and made the place gorgeous to the tune of a fuckload of money. Still, I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6178</link>
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		<title>Random Wednesday Thoughts: Making Up My Own Rules</title>
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I JUST now realized that Dawson from Dawson&#8217;s Creek and Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell aren&#8217;t the same dude. Deep down, I know that&#8217;s not true. Has anyone ever seen them both in the same place? I didn&#8217;t think so.
My dog Chloe ate my night guard about a year ago and I&#8217;m just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6159</link>
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		<title>Random Wednesday Thoughts: Your Love Is Like Bad Underwear</title>
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I meant to post yesterday but I was dragging ass all day because of a pair of bad underwear. Well not one pair, most of my pairs because I&#8217;ve lost a little weight so my normally snug granny panties are slidey aroundy and just not comfortable. I was up the night before tossing and turning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6140</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Alphatots</title>
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Complete with nose picking. Forgive the cinematic skills, I was keeping my eye on the road. Enjoy my robot voice. I should talk like that all the time.
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		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6135</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: Floaters And Angry Looks And Sometimes Both</title>
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My brother and his Baby Momma got hitched over the weekend which gave Jamie and I the excuse to get a sitter for an afternoon of kid free conversation. It was lovely but bittersweet since we had to go home at the end of the shin dig. Sigh.
Speaking of dates, we have started alternating date [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6123</link>
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		<title>Untethered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jamie is in VA all week for work and I&#8217;m playing the part of the single mom.  So far, I&#8217;ve only come close to murdering the kids a couple of times but man, these kids are tough. They&#8217;ve been attacking each other constantly and I can&#8217;t even prepare a meal without having to stop and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6117</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: Shocking Revelations</title>
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There&#8217;s a machine at the gym that&#8217;s basically like the Thigh Master but in huge, machine form. Although it&#8217;s a good workout, it looks totally sexual when you&#8217;re sitting there squeezing your legs together in a room full of farty/sweaty people. So I rarely use the stupid thing, even though my thighs could use some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6077</link>
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		<title>Swim Little Fishy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent Mother&#8217;s Day at the beach with my parents and it was glorious. Then my parents took the kids back to their house to nap while Jamie and I went to the gym and out to lunch. Just getting to go out to a restaurant with my husband in the middle of the day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6083</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: The Poop Standoff</title>
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Well hello there, is this thing on? I realize it&#8217;s been awhile. Life is getting in the way of the blog, man. Hopefully I&#8217;m back around to read and post semi-regularly. Since signing up for BlogHer, I&#8217;ve stopped blogging pretty much altogether and that kind of defeats the purpose of going, ya know?
Let&#8217;s see&#8230; what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6071</link>
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		<title>Club Half As Small As You: The Final Chapter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the final HASAY post. While HASAY was great in theory, it kind of fizzled out in the end so I&#8217;m shutting down the program. We started HASAY 19 months ago and while I’d like to say I lost a ton of weight in the  past 19 months, I really didn’t. I’m going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6065</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Balance Balance Balance Beam</title>
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		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6061</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: BLT&#8217;s And Unrelated Coronaries</title>
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Do you guys watch Modern Family? It&#8217;s the greatest show ever. I know I&#8217;ve said that about other shows but this one is. Set your DVR if it isn&#8217;t already.
So yesterday when I dropped Graham off at school, one of his little friends was writing his name on his worksheet. I commended the kid for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6052</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: Angry Bears And Drunken Toddlers</title>
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Elliot sailed through her ear tube/adenoid removal surgery just fine yesterday. She was a little pissy post-op but wouldn&#8217;t you be? Hopefully this is the end to her ear pain and she&#8217;ll be a new woman (toddler).
I had lunch at Panera last week and managed to thoroughly enjoy pissing some guy off. While waiting for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6010</link>
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		<title>When It&#8217;s Bad, It&#8217;s Oh So Bad</title>
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Nobody ever warned me that parenting would be so damn&#8230; hard. That I would feel like a failure most of the time and just struggle to keep my head above water. Yet here I am, with an almost two year old and a three year old and it hasn&#8217;t gotten any easier. I don&#8217;t blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6024</link>
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		<title>Home Economics Later In Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is day four on the new gluten free diet for the kids. We&#8217;ve had to replace all of their staple food items with gluten free substitutes. Since most store bought gluten free products taste like ass on toast, I&#8217;ve had to be creative. I&#8217;m not complaining though, at least there are store bought options [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6012</link>
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		<title>Club Half As Small As You: Month 18</title>
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Welcome to month 18 of Club HASAY! Not sure what HASAY is? Read all about it here.
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I recently made the decision to go to BlogHer this summer in NYC. Location, location, location.. that and the fact that I&#8217;m going to meet a few of my favorite peeps in person made the trip a no brainer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=6002</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: Your Shit Is In The Mail</title>
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Before we get started, I&#8217;d like to apologize for the amount of shit here at HAGAY. It&#8217;s my life, though. You guys want me to be who I am, right? 
Watching the winter Olympics, I can&#8217;t help but wonder what the men in skin tight outfits do if they get wood. Do they keep skating/skiing/curling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5988</link>
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		<title>Roid Rage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jamie burst into the room carrying a half-asleep Elliot and yelled that he wasn&#8217;t sure she was breathing. She was coughing so badly that she threw up and was wheezing for air. We calmed her down and sat in the steamy bathroom, waiting for her breathing to slow down to a normal level. We&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5982</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: My Man Looks Good In A Tie</title>
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		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5976</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: The Family That Poops Together Stays Together</title>
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Potty training is in full swing here in the land of HAGAY. Both kids get a jelly beans (dye-free) every time they go on the potty but it&#8217;s caused Elliot to start losing her shit. You see, she doesn&#8217;t actually EAT said jelly bean, she carries it around and shows it to everyone about a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5967</link>
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		<title>Stranger Danger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mommy, I have a new friend&#8221;. Graham chirped from the backseat.
It was rush hour and I was trying to navigate through traffic to meet Jamie and my father-in-law for dinner. The truth is, I was half-listening while mainly keeping my attention on the road.
&#8220;That&#8217;s nice, what&#8217;s your new friend&#8217;s name?&#8221; I asked.
&#8220;Eric&#8221; (or Erin or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5952</link>
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		<title>Wordless Wednesday: Her Future&#8217;s In Construction</title>
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At least I hear there&#8217;s good money in construction.
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		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5948</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: All By Myself And I Still Smell Shit</title>
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Last week, I got out for an afternoon and headed to Panera to chill with my laptop. It&#8217;s sad that when I break out of mommy jail, I head out for a date with my computer vs an actual human being.
So there was an older gentleman in a suit who was taking business calls and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5920</link>
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		<title>Club Half As Small As You: Month 17</title>
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Welcome to month 17 of Club HASAY! Not sure what HASAY is? Read all about it here.
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My FIL has been here for the past week and if that&#8217;s not a reason to binge eat, I don&#8217;t know what is. I could spend this post blabbering on about how I&#8217;m fat and tired of being fat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5928</link>
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		<title>Spin Cycle: Oh Happy Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happiness is making it to the top of the volcano all by yourself. 



And mastering the big kid stairs.



And sliding so damn fast that the camera can&#8217;t keep up.


Most of all, it&#8217;s getting out of the house for a tantrum free day where siblings unite.

In the mood to smile? Check out Sprite&#8217;s Keeper for more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5915</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts: That&#8217;s Gonna Leave A Mark</title>
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I just got back from girl&#8217;s night with a couple of friends. At my age, girl&#8217;s night consists of a trip to Ikea to lounge around in the showrooms and pretend we don&#8217;t have ornery toddlers at home, followed by appetizers at Fridays. It was glorious.
Oh, except for the cat. One ran out in front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5704</link>
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		<title>Why Didn&#8217;t Somebody Warn Us - Part Two On Going Dye Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, we&#8217;re completely artificial food dye free in the HAGAY household. Read the back story here. I&#8217;m linking up some of the articles I&#8217;ve come across so read them if you&#8217;re interested.  I&#8217;m also eventually going to keep a link up in my right sidebar with foods I&#8217;ve found to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5796</link>
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		<title>Why Didn&#8217;t Somebody Warn Us - Part One On Going Dye Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I told you I&#8217;d eventually explain why I fell off the face of the bloggy earth. It&#8217;s kind of wordy so I broke it up into two posts. It&#8217;s not the usual light hearted comedy you&#8217;ll find here at HAGAY, more like a tale of woe and despair. Don&#8217;t worry, happiness prevailed in the end. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5789</link>
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		<title>Random Tuesday Thoughts:The Boot Scooter Boogie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something happened to my Xmas card spreadsheet and it printed out labels for the old copy vs the updated one. So I almost sent out a Christmas card Jamie&#8217;s great aunt who passed away this summer. That would have been awkward.
We recently started time outs with Elliot. The 1-2-3 Magic discipline book we follow says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://halfasgoodasyou.com/?p=5802</link>
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