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		<title>Breathe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She rests her head on my chest and closes her eyes. Her left hand is the last to stop moving, playing with the fabric of my shirt long after the rest of her has fallen asleep. I close my eyes and lower my head, until my lips just brush her velvety soft hair, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Molly had a dolly that was sick sick sick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s pretty much the theme of our household at the moment. Aidan started playschool in January and he&#8217;s had two bouts of tonsillitis and one of bronchitis since then. Hunny has been doing some local work travel (more on that another time) and came home with something flu-ish last week, which he promptly gave to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2011/molly-had-a-dolly-that-was-sick-sick-sick/</link>
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		<title>Firstborn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erin will probably be our last child. Perhaps if I didn&#8217;t have to work things may be different, but two is all I feel I can handle as a working mom. Knowing this, I find I am mindful of all the &#8216;lasts&#8217;. This will be the last time I am cocooned up in a hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erin Julia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have lots on my mind to blog about for a change, but first things first I need to introduce the newest member of family van Niekerk to you: Erin Julia, born at 11:22 am, Wednesday 08 December 2010. Weighing in at 3.25 kg&#8217;s and at 52 cm&#8217;s long, and too beautiful for words.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2010/erin-julia/</link>
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		<title>Sleep deprived</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re still 4 days away from Wiggles intended arrival date and already thje sleep is slipping. Not that I have been comfortable enough or strong enough of bladder to get a full nights sleep in some time, but the last 3 days have really taken the mickey. 3 nights ago Aidan had his first midnight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2010/sleep-deprived/</link>
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		<title>The trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with thinking that you are of superior intellect is the feeling that the world and life owe you something for it.]]></description>
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		<title>How to spoil a perfectly good afternoon nap:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wake up to a 2 y.o. standing next to your bed saying ‘Yucky* mommy, yucky’, holding out a fistful of the contents of the cats litter tray. I half-heartedly instructed him to ‘go and put it back’, but the silence that ensued his departure from the room didn’t leave me convinced that this is what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2010/how-to-spoil-a-perfectly-good-afternoon-nap/</link>
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		<title>Notes on pregnancy no. 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. The super-nasal&#8217;s have kicked in. I remember this from last time. Of the 5 senses I think a heightened sense of smell is the only one that&#8217;s just not cool. 2. My brain is taking strain. I was adamant in my first pregnancy that the much spoken about pregnancy porridge brain was a myth. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2010/notes-on-pregnancy-no-2/</link>
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		<title>Random</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Nirvana popped up on my ipod this morning on my drive into work… and it got me thinking Imagine you are the daughter of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain. You mother is an aged teenage fruit cake and the courts don’t think she’s fit to take care of you. Your father plastered his brains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.alexvanniekerk.com/2010/random/</link>
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		<title>Homeless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 8th April this year, Hunny and I went to look at a house. We hadn’t been looking, but we were running out of space in our current house, and we spotted this one for sale in a complex that we’d expressed a liking for previously. We went back to look again on the [...]]]></description>
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