<?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-8666740402649876464</id><updated>2011-07-08T12:53:11.165-07:00</updated><category term='Photography'/><category term='Amelie'/><category term='Xavier'/><category term='Ramblings'/><title type='text'>Even Artichokes Have Hearts</title><subtitle type='html'>Ramblings of a 30-something domestic goddess...........</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666740402649876464.post-5813523116355653382</id><published>2010-06-24T22:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T22:23:35.141-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Xavier'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Everyone always comments on Xavier's eyelashes.....he always got mistaken for a girl when he was a baby. Apparently Ben's were exactly the same. So here you go!&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/TCQ9JZexFRI/AAAAAAAAABI/lX8n6K0qVnM/s1600/DSC_0019.NEF.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; clear: both;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/TCQ9JZexFRI/AAAAAAAAABI/lX8n6K0qVnM/s320/DSC_0019.NEF.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent;" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666740402649876464-5813523116355653382?l=lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/5813523116355653382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/06/everyone-always-comments-on-xaviers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/5813523116355653382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/5813523116355653382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/06/everyone-always-comments-on-xaviers.html' title=''/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/TCQ9JZexFRI/AAAAAAAAABI/lX8n6K0qVnM/s72-c/DSC_0019.NEF.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666740402649876464.post-814603793737277345</id><published>2010-05-08T08:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T08:43:17.653-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Xavier'/><title type='text'>The Litte Dude</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S-WGZhYuzpI/AAAAAAAAABA/7VNwD1ln1PM/s1600/DSC_0065.NEF.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; clear: both;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S-WGZhYuzpI/AAAAAAAAABA/7VNwD1ln1PM/s320/DSC_0065.NEF.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  I burst into tears after speaking to a lady about enrolling him in Kindy and Primary School this week....yes, I am officially a lunatic mother....&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent;" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666740402649876464-814603793737277345?l=lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/814603793737277345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/05/litte-dude.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/814603793737277345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/814603793737277345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/05/litte-dude.html' title='The Litte Dude'/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S-WGZhYuzpI/AAAAAAAAABA/7VNwD1ln1PM/s72-c/DSC_0065.NEF.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666740402649876464.post-2811057016592718968</id><published>2010-05-08T08:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T08:34:42.609-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mother's Day</title><content type='html'>So I am blessed with two gorgeous children. Xavier turned three years old right before I had Amelie in February this year. If you had told me five years ago that I would be celebrating Mother's Day with my son and daughter in 2010, who knows how I would have reacted. I still pinch myself at my 'perfect' pigeon pair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even when I dread waking up at some ungodly hour in the morning, they always have a smile for me. Amelie has even taken to smiling at me in the darkness when she wakes me up for a feed. Beautiful!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being a mother is the most special thing to me, along with being a wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go give your mum a hug :) Chocolates and flowers also work wonders!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666740402649876464-2811057016592718968?l=lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/2811057016592718968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/05/mothers-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/2811057016592718968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/2811057016592718968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/05/mothers-day.html' title='Mother&apos;s Day'/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666740402649876464.post-6039786063647479270</id><published>2010-05-04T07:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T16:22:13.263-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><title type='text'>Busy Bee</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px;"&gt;Have been trying to shoot anything and everything as much as possible, and slowly, with LOTS of trial and error, I generally find that I get just enough good shots to stop me throwing my camera away, which is a good thing, because it cost me a fortune :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S-AuHvs-jUI/AAAAAAAAAA4/JXSAa41vYlg/s1600/Lavender.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S-AuHvs-jUI/AAAAAAAAAA4/JXSAa41vYlg/s320/Lavender.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent;" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666740402649876464-6039786063647479270?l=lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/6039786063647479270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/05/busy-bee.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/6039786063647479270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/6039786063647479270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/05/busy-bee.html' title='Busy Bee'/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S-AuHvs-jUI/AAAAAAAAAA4/JXSAa41vYlg/s72-c/Lavender.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666740402649876464.post-7281118568224037966</id><published>2010-04-28T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T18:53:20.639-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><title type='text'>My first photo taken on my DSLR ever.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9jmcU758wI/AAAAAAAAAAw/zc9zIH1s0ZY/s1600/DSC_0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; clear: both;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9jmcU758wI/AAAAAAAAAAw/zc9zIH1s0ZY/s320/DSC_0001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  Sometimes you just need your day brightened up a little.&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent;" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666740402649876464-7281118568224037966?l=lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/7281118568224037966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-first-photo-taken-on-my-dslr-ever.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/7281118568224037966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/7281118568224037966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-first-photo-taken-on-my-dslr-ever.html' title='My first photo taken on my DSLR ever.....'/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9jmcU758wI/AAAAAAAAAAw/zc9zIH1s0ZY/s72-c/DSC_0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666740402649876464.post-7502835906092112918</id><published>2010-04-24T21:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-24T21:18:24.244-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amelie'/><title type='text'>Amelie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30887145@N08/4540768082/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4540768082_57b3047860_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0.9em;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30887145@N08/4540768082/"&gt;DSC_0183.NEF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/30887145@N08/"&gt;lizday21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/"&gt;She'll change your life......&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yes, her name is just like the movie. She'll hate me for it in about 15 years time I guess, but I gave birth to her......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666740402649876464-7502835906092112918?l=lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/7502835906092112918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/04/amelie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/7502835906092112918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/7502835906092112918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/04/amelie.html' title='Amelie'/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4540768082_57b3047860_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666740402649876464.post-8618534763728329909</id><published>2010-04-24T20:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-24T21:00:23.098-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ramblings'/><title type='text'>So here I am......</title><content type='html'>Another blog to keep me entertained. Hopefully this one will be more for my photography and child-related stuff. In reality, who knows what it will evolve into.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8666740402649876464-8618534763728329909?l=lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/feeds/8618534763728329909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/04/so-here-i-am.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/8618534763728329909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8666740402649876464/posts/default/8618534763728329909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifefirelunacy.blogspot.com/2010/04/so-here-i-am.html' title='So here I am......'/><author><name>Liz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06440590421914175598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWNg5DXtgvQ/S9O7X8xiqEI/AAAAAAAAAAM/WPtRiQiWXe0/S220/25895_382100337563_585237563_5110978_622814_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
