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	<title>My Bountiful Life...</title>
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	<description>Currently living in Bangalore, India!! hockey mom, homeschool mom, organic gardener, enough pets to have our own food chain, i.am.canadian. engineer by schooling... in practice, not so much, knitter, spinner, gadget girl extraordinaire, camera permanently affixed to right hand</description>
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		<title>Home, Sweet Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve moved into our house and are still in the process of settling in. We&#8217;re making good progress though and I only have a few boxes left to unpack. It is beautiful here &#8211; where we live and Bangalore as a whole. Making it &#8220;Home&#8221;has been easy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=501</link>
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		<title>Call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is, perhaps two kilometres or so from our hotel, a minaret, ornate and beautiful, standing high above the skyline, it&#8217;s white a striking contrast against the green of the trees. Five times every day, the Islamic Call to Prayer is broadcast from here, calling the devout to pray. I&#8217;ve heard the call to prayer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=489</link>
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		<title>Monsoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in India at the start of the Monsoon Season. What this means, as far as I can tell, is that there is sun for at least part of the day, often much of the day, then cloud cover for part of the day, then it rains for a while. And then it’s probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India: Week Three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been here more than two weeks already. Wow. Our first days here are now just a blur of jetlag, attempting those first grocery shopping trips, jetlag, the first round of house hunting, jetlag, hours at the police station applying for residence permits, jetlag. . . We were jetlagged ;) And let me tell you, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=483</link>
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		<title>Home is Where You Celebrate the People You Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(no one wears hats anymore, anyway) Before we’d been in India two weeks, we had our first celebration: Jordan’s 14th birthday. &#8211;&#62; melt down about one of my children being as old as fourteen deleted &#60;&#8211; I’d secretly packed some gifts in my luggage before we left Canada, and I picked up another once we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=479</link>
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		<title>India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been here for a week and half now. It doesn’t seem nearly that long. I think that getting out of Canada was harder than any adjustment we will have to make here in India. We sold our house and put almost everything in storage. We carried eight suitcases with us on the trip and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=469</link>
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		<title>The Next Chapter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why is Mama on da swings?! Mama! Get off dere! Swings are for KIDS!&#8221; When I was an &#8216;appropriate&#8217; age for the swings, I always imagined that my life would be spent largely in other places. I wanted to have coffee in Paris. Walk alone in the rain in the green fields of Ireland. Work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=451</link>
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		<title>Boudicea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are just home from a glorious week away Up North at a cottage on a lovely lake. It was really a wonderful time. As I plow through the mountains of sand-filled laundry and other stuff to put away, it feels like this marks the end of Summer. Here in Canada, the traditional end to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=447</link>
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		<title>Time Well Spent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this afternoon, just as I was putting The Baby down to sleep, it began to rain. The thunder rolled continuously in the distance and as I came back downstairs, it began to rain harder. I stood for a minute, looking out the kitchen window at my gardens. I had planned to work in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=446</link>
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		<title>Artemis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Artemis died. We discovered she had a brain tumour and were told she would gradually decline over the next months. But her decline was sudden and fast and she was gone almost right away. It&#8217;s been 10 days and we are still reeling. I miss her so much. I&#8217;m grateful that her suffering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billi-jean.com/blog/?p=445</link>
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