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		<title>The &#8216;eater&#8217; and the &#8217;sleeper&#8217;.</title>
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I hardly dare mention this…. But Madeline, over the past 2 ½ weeks or so, has been sleeping through the night nearly perfectly.  We don’t know what finally triggered this miracle.  Certainly nothing new that mom and dad have done (we did move her bed into our bedroom about 5 weeks ago, well before the miracle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=595&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-eater-and-the-sleeper/</link>
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		<title>Halloween 2009.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Halloween has come and gone &#8211; and the holiday coincided with the arrival of the monsoon season here in Sri Lanka.  It has been exceptionally rainy here lately.  Some people say it&#8217;s the monsoon, inter-monsoonal period, whatever&#8230; the fact is that the climate has changed so much that no one really knows what it should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=605&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/halloween-2009/</link>
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		<title>Thailand.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The family just got back from a fabulous week in Thailand.  Other than laying over in the airport during a long trip, none of us had spent any time in Thailand.  All the things we had had heard about this country seem to be true &#8211; easy to get around, tons of great things to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=570&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/thailand/</link>
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		<title>Birthday 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend of September 19-20, dear Madeline had her THIRD birthday celebration.  WOW!  It was great.  After much build-up, on Friday afternoon the big kids&#8217; party finally took place.  Mom had spent most of the week planning the event &#8211; and did a professional job.  All kinds of games and activities were planned to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=555&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/birthday-3/</link>
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		<title>Mountain adventures.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend we went into the beautiful mountains of Sri Lanka.  We had not been up there in a long time, so this trip was long overdue.  Sri Lanka is known as a beach-lover’s paradise, but not many people know that the highest mountains are over 2,400 meters high.  It is hard to imagine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=537&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/mountain-adventures/</link>
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		<title>Truckin&#8217;</title>
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The weather in Colombo has been delightfully cool lately &#8211; in fact, it is downright chilly in the early mornings (okay, it&#8217;s all relative&#8230;.)  Anyway, it&#8217;s been very nice.  Is has been rainy as well, most often at night, but no thunderstorms.  This seems out of sync with then normal monsoon rainfall patterns throughout the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=528&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/truckin/</link>
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		<title>Back in Sri Lanka.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been such a long time since this blog was updated – and it’s not for lack of events!  This summer has been a sanely busy one.  The family is now firmly back in Sri Lanka and starting a new school year in Colombo.
Besides Dad, the family didn’t travel too much this summer.  In fact, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=509&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/back-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<title>Summer.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, things have finally &#8216;downshifted&#8217; to a more manageable gear over the past week.  Thank goodness.  The last few weeks before the holiday were insanely busy. 
The family left Sri Lanka very early on Wednesday morning June 17th (easily changed our departure date by two days for a negligible fee) and arrived in San Francisco on the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=502&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/summer/</link>
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		<title>The first month with the new roommate.</title>
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Has it already been almost a month since Calvin came along?  Can&#8217;t believe it!  Time is moving fast.  That&#8217;s what happens at the end of the school year for teachers anyway, and this year is turbocharged, with the entire household still getting used to having an infant around.
I don&#8217;t know how it is possible, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=477&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/the-first-month-with-the-new-roommate/</link>
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		<title>Welcome little brother.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Smith baby is finally here!  What a crazy, unusual month it has been…
At 03:00 on Sunday, May 10 (Mother’s Day, Wesak weekend, and a day after dad’s birthday!), Mom woke up with pains deep in her tummy, and by 07:00 we were speeding to the hospital.  After a relatively quick delivery, at 09:13 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maddiesmith.wordpress.com&blog=594651&post=468&subd=maddiesmith&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://maddiesmith.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/welcome-little-brother/</link>
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