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		<title>hello, my name is chris and i have become a soccer mom</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/09/23/hello-my-name-is-chris-and-i-have-become-a-soccer-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past month seems to have gone by in a blur for me. Part of this blur in due to Aidan&#8217;s decision to try a bunch of new activities this fall. So, right now almost every day is booked with something&#8211;from gymnastics to robotics and everything in between! In addition to the variety of classes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 good 2 b 4gotten</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/08/07/2-good-2-b-4gotten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes getting together with old friends who don&#8217;t live close by can be challenging, especially with different schedules, lifestyles, etc. But it is so worth the effort. We recently got together with Aidan&#8217;s longest known friend (the daughter of a dear friend of mine that I&#8217;ve known for quite some time). The two of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>family fun and fermi</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/07/02/family-fun-and-fermi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this summer, we spent the day at Fermilab National Laboratory with some friends enjoying their annual &#8220;Family Outdoor Fair.&#8221; It was good fun. We scooped for pond life, netted for prairie insects, took and examined soil samples, observed an amazing menagerie of raptors, tested a falconer&#8217;s tracking device, saw a collection of fossils, tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>science saturday</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/06/07/science-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was awakened the other day by my boy wanting to jump right into doing a handful of science experiments. I&#8217;m all for experiments and projects, but his eagerness and persistence was literally brought upon me as I rolled out of bed, and was all before my first cup of coffee! Luckily I was able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sometimes the best plans are having no plans at all</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2011/03/03/sometimes-the-best-plans-are-having-no-plans-at-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago Aidan and I went and explored the stars at the Adler Planetarium. It was a great day (with the exception that my hubby was not able to come with us). I have found that some of the best days are the ones in which we have no plans but just decide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reading ken robinson&#8217;s out of our minds</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/09/14/reading-out-of-our-minds-by-ken-robinson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past summer I read Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson. The cover of the book has been sitting in the &#8220;Good Reads&#8221; (formerly &#8220;Now Reading&#8221;) area of this blog for nearly a year, so I figured I should drop a few thoughts on the book and rotate the cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a soda bottle water rocket launch</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/06/01/a-soda-bottle-water-rocket-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Chris and I facilitated a day of physics, flight, and rocket science for a group of home schoolers. The one thing we wanted to do but didn&#8217;t get the chance to was launch a soda bottle water rocket. Aidan really wanted to give it a whirl, so we built a rocket launcher out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a delicious sticky mess</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/02/19/a-delicious-sticky-mess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we spent the better part of the morning at Pilcher Park in Joliet, IL learning about how maple syrup is made. This is a popular seasonal program at the park where they actually tap their sugar maples and produce the syrup on site. It was good fun. As I understand it, the whole process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>shifting my focus at the museum of science and industry</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2010/01/22/shifting-my-focus-at-museum-of-science-and-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the family and I took what seems to be our quarterly trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. It&#8217;s always a lot of fun. Aidan really gets into it and seems to learn a lot each time we go. Today we spent most of our time in the new &#8220;You&#8221;exhibit, and complimented that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>dinosaurs live!</title>
		<link>http://writing101.net/2009/10/30/dinosaurs-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Aidan and I took advantage of one of the free days at Brookfield Zoo. It was a great time to go&#8211;the weather was fairly warm for the end of October, there were no crowds, and we got to see the Dinosaurs Alive exhibit in its final days. We hadn&#8217;t been there since last November [...]]]></description>
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