<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Motherhood @ emperorp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Motherhood) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 emperorp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:16:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Motherhood @ emperorp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Housekeeping: The Baker&apos;s Dozen</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/housekeeping_the_bakers_dozen.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/housekeeping_the_bakers_dozen.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=housekeeping%5Fthe%5Fbakers%5Fdozen</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I feel like I've semi-retired from my blog these last few months. I say "semi" because although I haven't added many posts my mind is constantly thinking about my poor neglected blog and mentally creating entries that so far haven't been posted (or]]></description></item><item><title>Puget Sound Race for the Cure 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/puget_sound_race_for_the_cure_2008.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/puget_sound_race_for_the_cure_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=puget%5Fsound%5Frace%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Fcure%5F2008</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Bosom Buddies of Ballard, including Ashley and I, completed the Puget Sound Race for the Cure. 14,500 people participated and raised about $1.65 million. Thanks to everyone who supported us and all of you who gave donations. Rosemary exceeded her]]></description></item><item><title>The Favorites Game</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/the_favorites_game.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/the_favorites_game.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffavorites%5Fgame</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For a couple of years now I have been playing The Favorites Game with Ashley and Caitlin. Sometimes with both together, and sometimes when I am alone with them separately, I will ask them a series of questions about their favorite things. It?s a grea]]></description></item><item><title>Convalescing Valentines</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/convalescing_valentines.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/convalescing_valentines.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=convalescing%5Fvalentines</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We celebrated a quiet Valentine's Day, as Ashley and Caitlin are still in the throes of illness and James returned to work. They were disappointed to miss the Valentine's celebrations at their respective schools so we surprised them with a dressed up]]></description></item><item><title>Sweetly Sick</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sweetly_sick.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/sweetly_sick.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sweetly%5Fsick</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Caitlin has been sick. When I picked her up at noon from school on Monday she was waiting at her classroom door, zipped up in her coat with tears streaming down her eyes. Her teacher told me she had been sad for about an hour. She and her co-teacher]]></description></item><item><title>Delightful Daily Details</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/delightful_daily_details.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/delightful_daily_details.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=delightful%5Fdaily%5Fdetails</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At Caitin's school there is a parent educator who, from time to time, greets parents in the hallway when we arrive to pick up our children. Becky is often armed with handouts to distribute, that contain interesting and useful information on]]></description></item><item><title>Remember What&apos;s Important</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/remember_whats_important.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/remember_whats_important.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=remember%5Fwhats%5Fimportant</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our relationship is more important than...]]></description></item><item><title>Caitlin&apos;s New Skills (3yrs 7mths)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/caitlins_new_skills_3yrs_7mths.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/caitlins_new_skills_3yrs_7mths.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=caitlins%5Fnew%5Fskills%5F3yrs%5F7mths</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Caitlin is learning to write her name and make representational drawings. She drew her first self-portrait on paper in school on Thursday. She also drew a picture of&nbsp;herself with a sun and a picture of me. On Saturday, she watched Ashley draw a]]></description></item><item><title>Children Need</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/children_need.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/children_need.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=children%5Fneed</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I came across the following at the pre-school of our little friend Katie. It made me smile. Children Need by Meiji Stewart Appreciation, for all they bring into our lives. Balance, somewhere between too little and too much. Commitment, it's the littl]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering Without a Map: Mothers Need Others Pt 2: Ambivalence</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others_pt_2_ambivalen.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others_pt_2_ambivalen.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap%5Fmothers%5Fneed%5Fothers%5Fpt%5F2%5Fambivalen</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ambivalence is not mixed feelings, but contradictory impulses and emotions toward the same person...Problems can arise in how mothers deal with the guilt and anxiety ambivalence provokes. Parents who can tolerate these feelings, rather th]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering Without a Map: Mothers Need Others</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_mothers_need_others.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap%5Fmothers%5Fneed%5Fothers</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[?Whether mothers need expert advice to get along is debatable, but without question they need other pairs of hands besides their own. As members of what anthropologists call a ?cooperative breeding? species, women require help to mother. Those ready]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering without a Map: Sacrifice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_sacrifice.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map_sacrifice.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap%5Fsacrifice</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Most every mother decides, again and again, what she's willing to give her children and to give up on their behalf. And every mother eventually arrives at the charged concept of sacrifice. The word means to forfeit something highly valued for the]]></description></item><item><title>Did I really say that?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/did_i_really_say_that.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/did_i_really_say_that.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=did%5Fi%5Freally%5Fsay%5Fthat</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A couple of conversations recently spurred me to write about the things that sometimes come out of my mouth. Last week, walking home from school with Ashley, Caitlin, my friend and her daughters, my friend mentioned that her youngest daughter had]]></description></item><item><title>Seattle Kids Marathon 2007</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/seattle_kids_marathon_2007.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/seattle_kids_marathon_2007.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=seattle%5Fkids%5Fmarathon%5F2007</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well they did it! Ashley and Caitlin took part in their first marathon. They completed the first 25 miles over the last couple of months and then the official run yesterday was 1.2 miles. They were so excited and Caitlin started the day by coming ups]]></description></item><item><title>Enjoying Chair Time</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/enjoying_chair_time.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/enjoying_chair_time.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enjoying%5Fchair%5Ftime</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shortly after I posted my previous blog about Chair Time the other day, Ashley and Caitlin were having a major disagreement in the study. I was finishing my lunch in the kitchen and every bone in my body was reverberating with irritation.]]></description></item><item><title>Choosing Chair Time</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/choosing_chair_time.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/choosing_chair_time.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=choosing%5Fchair%5Ftime</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I mentioned in a previous blog, I'd noticed an increase in sibling rivalry in the afternoons since Ashley started Kindergarten and Caitlin started preschool. We put a lot of that down to being very stimulated by school. A friend mentioned that her tw]]></description></item><item><title>Mothering Without a Map</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/mothering_without_a_map.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mothering%5Fwithout%5Fa%5Fmap</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I finished reading 'Mothering Without a Map' by Kathryn Black while at my Yoga Retreat this past weekend. It was very well written and dealt with the subject of under-mothered women and their path to being good mothers. There was great compassion in]]></description></item><item><title>A Not So Nuts November</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_not_so_nuts_november_1.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/a_not_so_nuts_november_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fnot%5Fso%5Fnuts%5Fnovember%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Before the girls started Kindergarten and Preschool in September James and I decided that we would not sign them up for any extra activities outside of school. This included their dance classes, which Ashley has been enjoying for a year and which Cai]]></description></item><item><title>Ashley, Napoleon and Me</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/ashley_napoleon_and_me.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/ashley_napoleon_and_me.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ashley%5Fnapoleon%5Fand%5Fme</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Monday Ashley and I had a chance to spend some time alone together. Her school was closed for Veterans Day but Caitlin&rsquo;s preschool doesn&rsquo;t follow the Seattle Public Schools schedule and only closes if the UW is closed. We dropped Caitl]]></description></item><item><title>Navigating Mothering and Cultural Minefields</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://emperorp.blog-city.com/navigating_mothering_and_cultural_minefields.htm</guid><link>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/navigating_mothering_and_cultural_minefields.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://emperorp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=navigating%5Fmothering%5Fand%5Fcultural%5Fminefields</comments><dc:creator>Emperorp</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So I had myself a ?moment? this week and it has taken me a few days to get my head around it. I?ve been trying to figure out if the cause is being a mother or being a stranger in a strange land so to speak. I?ve decided it?s both, and would appreciat]]></description></item></channel></rss>