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	<title>The Chicago Moms &#187; Melanie Myatt</title>
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		<title>Chicago Children&#8217;s Theatre&#8217;s Bud, Not Buddy packs an emotional punch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Barack Obama&#8217;s historic second inauguration on Martin Luther King Day, I was on the lookout for ways to bring home to my children the truths and travesties of racial inequality in our past.  The Chicago Children&#8217;s Theatre performance of Bud, Not Buddy turned out to be an excellent and entertaining way to do just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One last chance to see Harold and the Purple Crayon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way is there to introduce your kids to the theater, than to take them to see a show based on a story they know and love? If your kids are fans of Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, then you will want to head to Skokie&#8217;s North Shore Center of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better than a girl&#8217;s night out?  September&#8217;s Pretty Muddy Mud Run</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2012/08/better-than-a-girls-night-out-septembers-pretty-muddy-mud-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I decided that I am absolutely the craziest person I know.  &#8221;What led to this drastic conclusion?&#8221; you might well ask. I got up at 6.00 a.m. to go running. But it isn&#8217;t just that crazy decision that has made me the craziest person I know.  Oh no.  What has made me the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Children&#8217;s Theatre bring&#8217;s Eric Carle&#8217;s Treasured Stories to life</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2012/05/chicago-childrens-theatre-brings-eric-carles-treasured-stories-to-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Myatt; Chicago; Theater; Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you taken your kids to a movie based on a beloved book, only to be dismayed and disappointed by the adaptation?  Thankfully, that is not what happens in the Chicago Children&#8217;s Theatre production of A Brown Bear, A Moon and A Caterpillar: Treasured Stories by Eric Carle. When I heard that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because every woman deserves a little time on the red carpet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2012/02/because-every-woman-deserves-a-little-time-on-the-red-carpet/</link>
		<comments>http://thechicagomoms.com/2012/02/because-every-woman-deserves-a-little-time-on-the-red-carpet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Myatt; Girls Night Out; Go Red for Women; American Heart Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;you will definitely want to check out the Be Bold Go Red women&#8217;s event on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., sponsored by Sassy Moms in the City, B96 WBBM radio and K-Hits. This is the second annual &#8220;Girls Night Out&#8211;Go Red for Women&#8221; event at the Alhambra Palace Resautrant, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instead of taking your kids to another movie&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2012/01/instead-of-taking-your-kids-to-another-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Myatt; Chicago Children's Theatre; Brian Selznick; The Houdini Box; The Invention of Hugo Cabret]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;try taking them to the theatre (spoken with a British accent!). The Chicago Children&#8217;s Theatre is now showing The Houdini Box, a world-premier musical adventure based on the book by the same name, by Brian Selznick, who also wrote The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a 2008 Caldecott Award winner. The book has gained recent attention after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Christmas, try something a little different&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/12/this-christmas-try-something-a-little-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Myatt; holiday events; free performances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are certain holiday traditions our family has that we make sure to do every year.  We always have to make sugar cookies.  We write letters to Santa and find an opportunity to sit on his lap.  After last year, we always try to ride the Holiday Train. This year, we had the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodnight Moon, The Musical wakes up the fun</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/11/goodnight-moon-the-musical-wakes-up-the-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Myatt; Children's theater; Goodnight Moon the Musical; Children's Entertainment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown has always been one of my favorite toddler books to read.  The words are so soothing, and I love the idea of saying goodnight to &#8220;nobody.&#8221; Since the book itself doesn&#8217;t seem to inspire me to sing, I was wondering how they would draw it out into a full-length [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of a mother&#8217;s love</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/10/a-tale-of-a-mothers-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Myatt; Nunu Sung; Dupage County; injustice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We love everything about our lives in Chicago except the fact that we are far from family. With four kids, I definitely have days where I want to run to my &#8220;mommy&#8221; for some help, encouragement and a little bit of sanity. Thankfully, I have friends around who are almost available to help fill the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pregnancy times have changed&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/05/the-pregnancy-times-have-changed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my mom was pregnant with me (her first), she was working at a center for mentally challenged adults. Surrounded as she was by people who had been born with birth defects, she was absolutely certain that she too would have a baby with birth defects. Did she worry about what she ate? Did she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dot and Ziggy charms the smaller set</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/05/dot-and-ziggy-charms-the-smaller-set/</link>
		<comments>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/05/dot-and-ziggy-charms-the-smaller-set/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 19:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it were a normal night, the lobby theater would have inspired moans and groans from regular theater patrons. Babies were crying, moms were nursing, toddlers were running here, there and everywhere. But on a Friday morning at 10 a.m., these sights and sounds were just fine. At the Chicago Children&#8217;s Theatre production of Dot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t catch a break on Spring break&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/04/cant-catch-a-break-on-spring-break/</link>
		<comments>http://thechicagomoms.com/2011/04/cant-catch-a-break-on-spring-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Myatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melanie Myatt; Travel; Spring Break]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nursing a sick child through the first weekend of Spring Break, the whole family was excited to get started on our trip to Tennessee on Monday. We woke everybody up early, and the kids excitedly put on the shorts and t-shirts that would be appropriate later that day. As I looked out our kitchen [...]]]></description>
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