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		<title>Enter Micah James Lawrence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Micah James Lawrence March 16, 2012 at 11:27 am 9 lbs 21 inches (for those that are counting) He was born in the tub. A pisces through and through &#8211; like his big brother &#8211; born on the same day, three years ago. It was an amazing birth. Mary was incredibly courageous, I am forever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCD Soundsystem makes the kids clean the house</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not that our house is small. I think it is rather large.  Yeah, ok &#8211; there are two kids sleeping in what should be a laundry room, and the master bedroom has no closets, doors, and barely fits a queen size bed. But how much more room do we need? What would we do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elouise has photography in her bones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom, Linda Lawrence liked to take pictures. She was good at capturing her boys together or alone, contemplative or joyful. The really good ones, she would blow up to an 8&#215;10 and frame. Linda had a Minolta XD-11 and she taught me how to use it. I loved advancing the film after I took a picture. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family dates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Mary’s idea. She knows that I tend to load up our calendar. Let’s have family dates before the baby comes.  So we did. This weekend (maybe the last weekend before our new baby) we just bopped around the island, doing family things. We went to Minglement and got mochas, steamers and cookies. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wizard of Oz is not a closer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The kids go to sleep next to each other in the same bed almost every night. Elouise, snuggled up with Rollie Rollie Midnight, her black lab with a red bow around his neck given to her by our friend Ghan. Jacob primarily has a brown mutt stuffed in the give-it-to-me-give-it-to-me position. His was handed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Totem Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one way to look at it. Elouise is an apple blossom flower fairy. Up close and from far away, stunning. Promising a sweet sturdy fruit. Playful and soft spoken. Jacob is a crow. A trickster. Inventive he flies high above a country road to drop a nut. Quick to a loud noise, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems and solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Problem: Son wants to watch episode after episode of Elmo clips streamed from YouTube on my phone. The Solution: An agreement. Timing, and a strategy prevail once more. 1 movie a week on my computer, and up to two clips a day on my phone, if requested. I don&#8217;t blame the kid one bit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hALLoWeeN in all forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get all misty in the fall. Slender poplars with corn husk tops remind me that this too shall pass. Manhattans seem the better option and it&#8217;s dark, even when I wake up late. Bare trees are familiar and seem in their natural state without their adorning leaves and berries. I love summer, and all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tugboats, gearheads and toddlers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me till I was staring at a huge diesel engine that a tugboat is nothing more that a really cool wooden shell around an amazingly powerful engine. At that moment, both of my inadequacies were assaulted: carpentry and combustion, all in one tiny little package.
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		<title>Maybe I&#8217;ll grow up a little more with this one</title>
		<link>http://www.thepoppa.com/2011/08/maybe-ill-grow-up-a-little-more-with-this-one/?source=rss&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=maybe-ill-grow-up-a-little-more-with-this-one</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never had a plan. When I met Mary, things just sort of fell in to place, really for the first time, ever. I met her. Several months later, I realized that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. She said yes, and every day after that has been the best [...]]]></description>
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