<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from emperorp.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 emperorp.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-14T07:28:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-11-14:links.412190805</id><title>Prairie Pumpkins</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/prairie_pumpkins.htm"><![CDATA[Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight
Make me a child again just for to-night!
-Elizabeth Akers Allen

A couple of weeks later here they are, photos from Halloween.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/prairie_pumpkins.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-11-14T07:20:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-14T07:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-11-08:links.412155036</id><title>What I&apos;m Reading 2009</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/what_im_reading_2009.htm"><![CDATA[With the Arrival of Ethan in the middle of April my reading slowed down a little but what I've been reading I've been enjoying (except for Rory Stewart's The Spaces in Between. I found it a tedious read and felt that his presentation of the men of]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/what_im_reading_2009.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-11-08T07:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-08T07:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-11-06:links.412189625</id><title>Bits and Blogs</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/bits_and_blogs.htm"><![CDATA[I&#39;ve just had a very inspiring Scrapbook gathering at my house this morning. Everytime I gather with likeminded women I come away fueled with ideas that I can&#39;t way to apply to what I&#39;m doing. Today I had the added bonus of getting to kno]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/bits_and_blogs.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-11-06T21:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-06T21:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-10-07:links.412185384</id><title>Sweet Survival</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sweet_survival.htm"><![CDATA[Here we are. We are not lost. It feels good to be back writing a post for my blog after so long. I've missed it. So, the reason for so much silence this summer:]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sweet_survival.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-10-07T05:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-07T05:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-09-01:links.412181032</id><title>Negotiating Our (Little) World Peace</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/negotiating_our_little_world_peace.htm"><![CDATA[It was 8:40am and I felt like I&rsquo;d just help negotiate world peace. Parties Involved: Ashley, Caitlin, Eiza and MoiIssue on the Table: Who should own the ballerina cake top?Background Information: Ashley went out with Pauline yesterday evening t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/negotiating_our_little_world_peace.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-09-01T21:44:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-01T21:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-08-27:links.412180534</id><title>Perseverance</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/perseverance.htm"><![CDATA[The other evening I was sitting on the bathroom floor with Ethan in his baby bath. Ashley and Caitlin had already taken their baths. Caitlin and Ashley helped bathe Ethan but Caitlin soon lost interest and wandered off to play. As Ashley and I sat on]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/perseverance.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-08-27T07:28:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-27T07:28:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-08-03:links.412176043</id><title>Monday Musings 38</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_38.htm"><![CDATA[&quot;Soul connections never end, though the shapes of friendships certainly change.&quot;&ndash;Gloria Naylor&nbsp;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_38.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-08-03T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-08-03T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-27:links.412162305</id><title>Monday Musings 37</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_37.htm"><![CDATA["It is not so much our friends? help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." ?Epicurus]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_37.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-27T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-27T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-20:links.412162304</id><title>Monday Musings 36</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_35.htm"><![CDATA["True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." –Joseph Addison]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_35.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-20T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-20T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-17:links.412177049</id><title>Priceless</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/priceless.htm"><![CDATA[Have you ever had one of those days when you realize that there is zero glamour in your job? This afternoon, snuggling in the sun on the sofa with Ethan, nursing him and preparing him for his late afternoon nap, Ethan made the familiar bodily sounds]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/priceless.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-17T00:31:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-17T00:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-14:links.412162303</id><title>Monday Musings 35</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_34.htm"><![CDATA["Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." –Anaïs Nin]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_34.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-14T06:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-14T06:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-11:links.412176361</id><title>Ashley Learns to Rock</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/ashley_learns_to_rock.htm"><![CDATA[Following my review of August Rush yesterday I thought it would be fun to share some images of Ashley discovering the guitar. Last summer we went to a birthday party where our friend Christian brought his guitar. We had a great time listening to him]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/ashley_learns_to_rock.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-11T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-11T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-10:links.412176349</id><title>Inspirational Rush: Guitar Style</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/inspirational_rush_guitar_style.htm"><![CDATA[A few months back James and I watched a film called August Rush. We loved the story about a young boy who hears music all around him and believes that if he follows the music it will lead him to his parents from whom he was separated as a baby. He ru]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/inspirational_rush_guitar_style.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-10T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-10T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-10:links.412176525</id><title>Sharing the Sun</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sharing_the_sun.htm"><![CDATA[I don&#39;t get the opportunity to hang out with friends much these days. Whenever the girls are off from school it is harder to get good quality adult time with other grown-ups. Today the stars aligned (as did the sun following three grey days here]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sharing_the_sun.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-10T06:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-10T06:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-08:links.412176414</id><title>A Storm in a Teacup</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_storm_in_a_teacup.htm"><![CDATA[I just popped over to catch up on what&rsquo;s happening with Chris at Notes From the Trenches and seems that at the moment we are living parallel lives. Only a few hours ago my 5yr old daughter drew a little picture of me, wrote &quot;Mum&quot; unde]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_storm_in_a_teacup.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-08T23:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-08T23:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-08:links.412176343</id><title>Bedtime Babes</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/bedtime_babes.htm"><![CDATA[Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should...]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/bedtime_babes.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-08T10:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-08T10:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-06:links.412176044</id><title>Monday Musings 34</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_34_2.htm"><![CDATA["To find the meaning of your life is to find the meaning of your everyday activity." -Shunryu Suzuki This was the quotation on the anniversary card that I received from James this week. I've included the image on the card too because I love it and I]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_34_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-06T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-06T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-06:links.412176001</id><title>Baby Bruises</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/baby_bruises.htm"><![CDATA[While snuggling in bed with Ashley the other night, she pointed to a tiny little bruise on my left thigh and asked what was it. As I looked at the little bruise I felt a rush of delight. I hadn&rsquo;t noticed it and haven&rsquo;t seen one for a few]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/baby_bruises.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-06T01:34:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-06T01:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-04:links.412176000</id><title>Dawn Delights Part 2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/dawn_delights_part_2.htm"><![CDATA[I love the dawn. Having a new infant in our bed these last couple of months has meant that I am experiencing the dawn a lot more again. And I am grateful. As I lie in bed and nurse Ethan I listen to the birds welcome the day and I watch the light]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/dawn_delights_part_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-04T13:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-04T13:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-07-03:links.412176014</id><title>Friday Film Follow Up</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/friday_film_follow_up.htm"><![CDATA[With the 4th of July on Saturday this year James had this Friday off. We were able to enjoy a great family day together, which included trading Pokemon cards (more on that later) and watching two family films together. We started by taking a family]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/friday_film_follow_up.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-07-03T15:14:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-03T15:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-06-29:links.412162299</id><title>Monday Musings 33</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_33_1.htm"><![CDATA["We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." -Jim Rohn]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_33_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-06-29T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-29T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-06-23:links.412174871</id><title>Friday Family Films</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/friday_family_films.htm"><![CDATA[Summer is here and, as part of our summer tradition which started two summers ago, we watch a movie on Fridays. For the last two summers these movies took place during the day and sometimes we invited Ashley&#39;s and Caitlin&#39;s friends. The Frida]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/friday_family_films.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-06-23T16:10:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-23T16:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-06-22:links.412162296</id><title>Monday Musings 32</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_32.htm"><![CDATA["Confidence is the ability to act on your goals consistent with your values despite your feelings and situation." -Daniel A. Janssen This is very appropriate now that we have added to our family. I find that with the inevitable exhaustion that comes]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_32.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-06-22T09:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-22T09:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-06-15:links.412162295</id><title>Monday Musings 31</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_31.htm"><![CDATA[“We do what we know how to do, and when we know better, we do better.” -Maya Angelou]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_31.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-06-15T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-15T08:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:emperorp.blog-city.com,2009-06-08:links.412162294</id><title>Monday Musings 30</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_30.htm"><![CDATA["Oh God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time" -Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://emperorp.blog-city.com/monday_musings_30.htm"/><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><author><name>Emperorp</name></author><updated>2009-06-08T08:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-08T08:00:00Z</published></entry></feed>