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		<title>Stomach Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this post, live, from the House of Vomit.  You got it, we’ve had a visit from the Stomach Flu fairy. Of course, this visit occurred after Hubby did 37 loads of laundry. And we changed all the &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/stomach-flu/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2121&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to deal with a diagnosis, in three easy steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to deal with a diagnosis, in three easy steps: Step 1 Panic Step 2 Realize the world is not coming to an end and start to find out more about the diagnosis. What does it really mean? Read, talk &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/how-to-deal-with-a-diagnosis-in-three-easy-steps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2111&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adventures of Little Miss Adorable]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it really does take a village. Thank you everyone for your help along the way. For more about the many people who helped us along the way, please see: In praise of the OTs in our lives Amazing Grace Amazing Grace, Again &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/thank-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2113&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Text msg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text MSG I was texting my sister the other day. In the time she sent a text &#38; I replied (actually just pressed send to my already written response) I did the following: Refereed a fight between the 3 year &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/text-msg/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2110&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to survive a haircut SPD-style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPD – Sensory Processing Disorder – means the world is too bright, too loud and too prickly, except when it’s not.  Then it’s time to crash into things, bounce off walls, hit, throw and chew metal forks in search of &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/how-to-survive-a-haircut-spd-style/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2102&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not on Target</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Canada consumers have been anxiously awaiting the opening of Target, a chain store well known in the USA. Our family visited one of these newly opened stores recently. And we won&#8217;t be going back anytime soon. That morning we &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/not-on-target/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2101&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My post from On The Book Pile: A Room of One&#8217;s Own</title>
		<link>http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/my-post-from-on-the-book-pile-a-room-of-ones-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is from over On The Book Pile, the place I talk about reading and writing. I also have some works in progress password protected over there too, if you&#8217;re interested in checking them out just let me know. &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/my-post-from-on-the-book-pile-a-room-of-ones-own/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2086&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of the OTs in our lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two kids with special needs in one family means we have a lot of therapists in our lives. Speech. Physio. Behaviour. The list goes on because we have at least two of each therapist, sometimes one for each kid, at &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/in-praise-of-the-ots-in-our-lives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2095&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I crawled home from work, exhausted with a bad cold.  We made it through a dinner of frozen lasagne (which only required me to get off the sofa twice).  After dinner Hubby and I vetoed giving the &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/sleep-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2089&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s telling that I have an entire blog category devoted to sleep. Sleep. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the chronically sleep deprived. Any parent will tell you that once you have kids, you won&#8217;t sleep &#8230; <a href="http://halfpastnormal.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/sleep/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halfpastnormal.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34312702&#038;post=2083&#038;subd=halfpastnormal&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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