<?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 libraryladymom.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 libraryladymom.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-22T06:28:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-21:links.412191730</id><title>I Can&apos;t Talk About This</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/i_cant_talk_about_this.htm"><![CDATA[Only to say that because of menstrual irregularities that are probably perimenopausal I had a horrible, incredibly painful test&nbsp; and have to wait 7 days for the results of the biopsy.My doctor says it is &quot;almost certain&quot; that nothing i]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/i_cant_talk_about_this.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-21T14:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-21T14:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412191233</id><title>Yet Another Cry That Will Go Unheard</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/yet_another_cry_that_will_go_unheard.htm"><![CDATA[Dear Parents of Toddlers:If it&#39;s a bright sunny day in November, just cold enough for a jacket, and you&#39;ve got an active 18 month old little boy--or girl, how about taking them to the park?Why bring them into my small story room with nothing]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/yet_another_cry_that_will_go_unheard.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T15:21:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T15:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412191119</id><title>Talking Turkey: Turkey Sausage, That Is</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/talking_turkey_turkey_sausage_that_is.htm"><![CDATA[SC loves to take the leftovers of this for school lunches. The original recipe came from the &quot;Desperation Dinner&quot;  ladies years ago, but my version is even simpler than theirs because I use a bag of frozen veggies rather than chopping anyth]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/talking_turkey_turkey_sausage_that_is.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T01:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T01:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190781</id><title>Patron of the Day</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/patron_of_the_day.htm"><![CDATA[The reference library on duty upstairs came down to tell us she&#39;d tossed a guy out for watching inappropriate stuff on the Internet.&quot;It&#39;s just swimsuit models,&quot; he told her.It wasn&#39;t just what they weren&#39;t wearing. It was th]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/patron_of_the_day.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T22:59:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T22:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190662</id><title>Bread Therapy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/bread_therapy.htm"><![CDATA[I am baking challah tonight by hand-- no mixer, no machine, because I needed to get my hands in the dough for therapy.I had a garbled phone messagecall (our phones are out of wack) from a mom who was upset about my behavior when she came in w/her 18]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/bread_therapy.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T00:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T00:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-12:links.412190537</id><title>Clean House</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/clean_house.htm"><![CDATA[I have a fantasy--and don&#39;t worry, it&#39;s not THAT sort of fantasy It&#39;s to have a lovely, GROWN-UP house.I mean, I&#39;m going to be 48 come the end of the month. Shouldn&#39;t I have a living room that LOOKS like a living room? I know we h]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/clean_house.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-12T15:07:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-12T15:07:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412189868</id><title>Sniper</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/sniper.htm"><![CDATA[I wasn&#39;t blogging yet in the fall of 2002, but if I had been, I know I would have been writing about the&quot;D.C. Sniper&quot;. And I&#39;ll never forget it.I&#39;ll never forget dropping SC off at school every day, watching the kids hurry in as]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/sniper.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T14:26:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T14:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-04:links.412189269</id><title>Keep &apos;Em Diapered</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/keep_em_diapered.htm"><![CDATA[I just saw a book on the reserve cart &quot;Diaper Free By 3&quot; and once again wondered &quot;WHY?&quot;What is the obsession about toilet training at an early age?I know diapers are costly. I know diapers are a pain in the neck.But so is cleaning]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/keep_em_diapered.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-04T18:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-04T18:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-04:links.412189265</id><title>Purple State Blues</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/purple_state_blues.htm"><![CDATA[Virginia is WEIRD. We have incredible wealth and the most grinding of poverty. Areas of rich diversity and other areas where folks still don&#39;t seem to have heard that the South lost the &quot;War of Northern Aggression&quot;.I&#39;ve lived here 2]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/purple_state_blues.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-04T17:27:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-04T17:27:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-02:links.412188982</id><title>Dear Darling Daughter,</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/dear_darling_daughter.htm"><![CDATA[Perhaps I AM meaner and stricter than all the mothers around here. Quite possible from what I&#39;ve seen.But when I take you and Mr Wonderful to the mall and instead of staying there, you take the Metro into DC and &quot;go for a walk&quot; around t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/dear_darling_daughter.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-02T13:31:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-02T13:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-11-01:links.412188749</id><title>Carrots For Halloween</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/carrots_for_halloween.htm"><![CDATA[Carrot cake, that is.Normally I&#39;m a chocolate person--you can fill up a Halloween dish with candy and if it&#39;s candy corn and the like I&#39;ll just yawn.But JR and I had carrot cake this spring--at&nbsp; Easter brunch, I think--and she&#39;s]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/carrots_for_halloween.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-11-01T13:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-01T13:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-30:links.412188485</id><title>The Pumpkin Song</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_pumpkin_song_10.htm"><![CDATA[All right, I&#39;m going to let you hear my not-so-dulcet tones because I can&#39;t find a recording of this song anywhere.I sing this all month long in October (and into November) at my programs for kids 12-24 months, and in late October at the prog]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/the_pumpkin_song_10.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-30T12:47:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-30T12:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-30:links.412188647</id><title>Comfort in Cumin</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/comfort_in_cumin.htm"><![CDATA[I have had a very long day today. I&#39;ve been helping to discharge and sort&nbsp; the billions of books we&#39;ve been unable to discharge for the last 3 days while we were transitioning from one circ system to the other. I&#39;ve been helping othe]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/comfort_in_cumin.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-30T00:54:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-30T00:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-28:links.412188458</id><title>Waiting To Exhale</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/waiting_to_exhale.htm"><![CDATA[JR is home with what is probably a stomach ache and no more--we&#39;ve all had similar things over the last week or two. The Man is home with her because I had to come to work and do my &quot;Halloween&quot; programs.And truthfully, coming in for my]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/waiting_to_exhale.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-28T14:36:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-28T14:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-26:links.412188237</id><title>&quot;Baby Genius&quot; Refunds</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/baby_genius_refunds.htm"><![CDATA[Bought any &quot;Baby Einstein&quot; DVDs since 2004?Well, if you have, according this NY Times article  the Disney Corporation is now ready to admit that your child just might not have been turned into a genius through watching this stuff, and is of]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/baby_genius_refunds.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-26T18:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-26T18:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-24:links.412188031</id><title>Floor Level Patrons</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/floor_level_patrons.htm"><![CDATA[Yesterday we had a weird one who kept trying to lie down on the floor and read. Bad enough in the adult area, but on the floor in the children&#39;s room--right next to &quot;Papa San&quot; sofa?JR was with me at work and I kept her in my office unti]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/floor_level_patrons.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-24T19:36:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-24T19:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-24:links.412188023</id><title>I Just Made President Obama A Library Card</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/i_just_made_president_obama_a_library_card.htm"><![CDATA[Well, sort of--we&#39;re going on a new circulation system next week and have an off-line system to practice on.Kind of fun billing the POTUS for an overdue library book though.Certainly a lot more fun that it will be next week when we are off-line f]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/i_just_made_president_obama_a_library_card.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-24T18:10:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-24T18:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-22:links.412187751</id><title>What Makes My Day</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/what_makes_my_day.htm"><![CDATA[When one of my favorite 3 year olds interrupts me in the middle of my story.Not because she interrupted me, but because of what she wanted to say:&quot;I love you, Miss L!&quot;I love you too, Amelia.And even if someday I didn&#39;t have to work for]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/what_makes_my_day.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-22T20:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-22T20:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-20:links.412187418</id><title>Where Have All the Three Year Olds Gone?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/where_have_all_the_three_year_olds_gone.htm"><![CDATA[My &quot;ages 2 and up&quot; programs are full of 2 year olds.Very new 2 year olds--26 months as opposed to 34 months.Wild, wiggly, still learning to sit down for a few minutes, minimal attention span 2 year olds.Plus several toddler siblings whose p]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/where_have_all_the_three_year_olds_gone.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-20T16:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-20T16:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-20:links.412187407</id><title>Dear SC</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/dear_sc.htm"><![CDATA[I am pleased that you have removed the line on your blog&#39;s sidebard where you note that Mom says that you &quot;don&#39;t have the common sense God gave a goat&quot;, especially since in it you refer to me as &quot;dear OLD mom&quot;.I KNOW that]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/dear_sc.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-20T14:57:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-20T14:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-19:links.412187212</id><title>Copycat Brownies</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/copycat_brownies.htm"><![CDATA[These are specifically, a copy cat version of the surprisingly good &quot;No Pudge&quot; box mix we&#39;ve been using at our house whenever the girls and I need a chocolate fix. We didn&#39;t have any in the house last night, so I tried this recipe t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/copycat_brownies.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-19T18:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-19T18:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-15:links.412186423</id><title>What I&apos;ve Been Doing This Week:</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/what_ive_been_doing_this_week.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-15T23:26:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-15T23:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-14:links.412186296</id><title>Apples, Apples and More Apples</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/apples_apples_and_more_apples.htm"><![CDATA[We went on our annual apple picking expedition in the Blue Ridge Mountains last Sunday and came back with 2 bags of apples--1 of Granny Smiths (the Man is SUPPOSED to bake pies) and one with Yorks. Not my favorite apple for cooking--I&#39;m a New Yor]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/apples_apples_and_more_apples.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-14T02:34:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-14T02:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-12:links.412186148</id><title>REAL Pot Roast</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/real_pot_roast.htm"><![CDATA[My mom always called her beef stew &quot;pot roast&quot;. But real pot roast is a roast cooked whole in the pot.And I&#39;ve never cooked it that way until tonight.I had a large piece of boneless chuck roast and the time to cook it stove top. So I we]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/real_pot_roast.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-12T23:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-12T23:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:libraryladymom.blog-city.com,2009-10-10:links.412185937</id><title>One Day When I&apos;m Rich...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/one_day_when_im_rich.htm"><![CDATA[Instead of going to the beauty salon once every few months to get my hair cut I am going to go every week. Just to get my hair washed and styled.There are some things you do for yourself that feel even better when someone else does them.And if you wa]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://libraryladymom.blog-city.com/one_day_when_im_rich.htm"/><dc:creator>LibraryLady</dc:creator><author><name>LibraryLady</name></author><updated>2009-10-10T20:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-10T20:39:00Z</published></entry></feed>