<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18464734981849513</id><updated>2011-07-28T16:33:59.923-07:00</updated><category term='slow life'/><category term='home birth'/><category term='slow food'/><category term='slow money'/><category term='homeschool'/><title type='text'>Our Slow Life Adventure</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18464734981849513/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jennifer Piette</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13727829445506790078</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I98zqvZ6VUM/S0buQD1BpcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Mi8oqr6yga4/S220/J%26J+FAMILY1032010_00001.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18464734981849513.post-5165691690319304392</id><published>2010-01-20T23:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T23:27:44.288-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Can Slow Life Happen on Schedule?</title><content type='html'>The kids blog about living in Exurbia.  I think about Slow Life.  Sounds so peaceful.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But try as I may, in practice, and as always, my job in life is to Create Schedules, and then keep the family to them.  Not exactly Slow Life -- Slow Down so you have time to have a life?  No, the ultimate irony, my job description: Time Keeper!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And why, every time The Schedule has just about graduated into a mindless Routine, does it need reinventing yet again!?  Being the Time Keeper when there is no Schedule should be like a holiday, but instead of having Slow Life, I can't help but shift into "Create Schedules" mode.  This involves bending my brain into 4-dimensions (and sometimes 5) and trying to connect the dots.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is when I throw up my hands and trust that the mechanism will sort out the situation in a Candide-like Best of all Possible Worlds, which I guess brings me full circle?!  Where was I again, a gold fish in the fish tank?  OK, I'm chucking Creating Schedule mode, and caving to Slow Life, maybe I'll think about it tomorrow -- not!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18464734981849513-5165691690319304392?l=slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/5165691690319304392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/2010/01/can-slow-life-happen-on-schedule.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18464734981849513/posts/default/5165691690319304392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18464734981849513/posts/default/5165691690319304392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/2010/01/can-slow-life-happen-on-schedule.html' title='Can Slow Life Happen on Schedule?'/><author><name>Jennifer Piette</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13727829445506790078</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I98zqvZ6VUM/S0buQD1BpcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Mi8oqr6yga4/S220/J%26J+FAMILY1032010_00001.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18464734981849513.post-6516369901838487214</id><published>2010-01-07T23:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T00:37:41.803-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homeschool'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slow food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slow life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slow money'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home birth'/><title type='text'>Blogger Birth</title><content type='html'>And so I finally add my voice to the clamor of bloggers trying to be heard.  It's been a while in coming, and naturally it's a home birth: I am emerging from that e-silent gestation largely to comment on my own children's blogs without being confusingly cloaked behind their names.   Perhaps this little quintet of voices will just sing to each other, perhaps it will sprawl.  Just another angle on our ever evolving Adventure together.  The infant blogger has made it's first shriek and now to sleep.  More later.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18464734981849513-6516369901838487214?l=slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/feeds/6516369901838487214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/2010/01/blogger-birth.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18464734981849513/posts/default/6516369901838487214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18464734981849513/posts/default/6516369901838487214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://slowlifeadventure.blogspot.com/2010/01/blogger-birth.html' title='Blogger Birth'/><author><name>Jennifer Piette</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13727829445506790078</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I98zqvZ6VUM/S0buQD1BpcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Mi8oqr6yga4/S220/J%26J+FAMILY1032010_00001.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
