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	<description>Most karate moms just do the commute; this one is a black belt after an ACL tear nearly ended it all.</description>
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		<title>Am I Parenting or in a Street Fight?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to someone about my blog last weekend, about how I feel completely and totally stifled in what I&#8217;m able to write about. When I first started writing, I was completely anonymous. I didn&#8217;t even tell Mr. BBM I had a blog until I already had a couple posts up. I had my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/05/11/am-i-parenting-or-in-a-street-fight/</link>
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		<title>Six Months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Babies develop in phases. Maybe it&#8217;s because he&#8217;s my third one, maybe because he&#8217;s my last one, but the time periods between these phases are entirely too short. Baby Belated is now 6 months old and it feels like he&#8217;s doing something new every single day. He went from being this pleasant little infant, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/04/30/six-months/</link>
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		<title>No Screens: Why People who are Constantly on their Phones are Missing Out on the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, Mr. BBM, his dad, step-mom and I went to see &#8220;The Hunger Games.&#8221; It was premiere weekend, so I should have known better. The first premier weekend movie I went to, back in the day, was &#8220;Evita.&#8221; Mr. BBM and I were dating at the time and we were fashionably late. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/03/27/no-screens-why-people-who-are-constantly-on-their-phones-are-missing-out-on-the-world/</link>
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		<title>5 Months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, my baby turned five months old. . . already. How did that happen? &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; The last month has been full of new things for Baby Belated. He turned his rolling of February into a mastered art in March. He started sitting up by himself and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/03/22/5-months/</link>
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		<title>Catch Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when your life gets too crazy busy to post much. . . you have SO much to say that  you don&#8217;t even know where to begin, so you just don&#8217;t. Guilty. Let&#8217;s see if I can catch everyone up on my cast of characters before Baby Belated wakes up today. Baby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/02/23/catch-up/</link>
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		<title>Little Girl Drama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never know what I&#8217;m going to hear when I ask my daughter &#8220;how was school?&#8221; Most days, I hear about the daily drama. Girls who tell her &#8220;I hate you.&#8221; Girls who tell her &#8220;You&#8217;re mean.&#8221; She is supposed to write something on the board that she did over the weekend. This week, she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/01/18/little-girl-drama/</link>
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		<title>Why I Won&#8217;t Be Watching &#8220;Are You There, Chelsea?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I decided I would check out the new show &#8220;Are you there, Chelsea?&#8221; It comes on right after &#8220;Whitney,&#8221; one of my new favorites. As I watched it, I was thinking that the humor was really dull and the subject matter not all that great either. However, I&#8217;ve thought this about other new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/01/12/why-i-wont-be-watching-are-you-there-chelsea/</link>
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		<title>On Not Creating Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you created your resolutions for 2012? I haven&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not doing any this year. I&#8217;ve decided that resolutions are just one more thing that women create in order to make themselves feel guilty. I have enough guilt in my life. Scene cuts to Christmas morning with Swim Girl counting presents. I&#8217;ll give you one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2012/01/03/on-not-creating-resolutions/</link>
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		<title>Prayers Answered?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, we stood by helpless as our friend buried his wife after a year long battle with synovial sarcoma. She was pregnant when she was diagnosed; her son, barely a year old when she passed away at age 29. A couple years ago, I read with hope, blogger, Lisa&#8217;s battle with ovarian cancer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2011/12/23/prayers-answered/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Been a Little Bit Busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started my blog right around the time when Sassy was six months old. I spent a lot of nap times plugging away on an entry, trying to build up a readership and make a name for myself in the blogging world. You haven&#8217;t heard from me in about a month. This time around, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbeltmama.com/blog/2011/11/29/ive-been-a-little-bit-busy/</link>
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