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Whoops

By Anna Sawin

As I’m looking at that last blog post, where I tell you that I hope the next update I give you about the twins in our family will be many weeks from now, I just have to wonder a little about karma. As of yesterday morning at 6:39 a.m., my sister is no longer home…

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Still here

By Anna Sawin

You all are too much. So many thanks for the phone calls, texts and emails about my sister. I am so sorry to leave you hanging this week, but the good news is I have the following to report: After a harrowing two weeks, my sister is A) still pregnant B) at HOME C) 30…

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Fisheye fun

By Anna Sawin

Our cousin Ben is engaged to a photographer, which makes for great discussions at family gatherings. She just got a fisheye lens, so we had some fun with it this past weekend. I haven’t downloaded my tries with it yet, but I just love these photos, courtesy of Steph Stevens Photo (and the last one…

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Still waiting

By Anna Sawin

She’s still pregnant. Thank goodness. And while the hourly ups and downs, including zingers like “we need to deliver you today” (now heard appx. every 18 hours) and “we are concerned about your liver failing” are nearly impossible for even my sister and her husband to keep track of,  as of right now, those babies…

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Food Friday: Magnesium sulfate and sugar water

By Anna Sawin

Today’s Food Friday was going to be an Ina Garten cookie recipe, and it’s a good one. But instead,  I’m with my sister in the hospital while she staves off preterm labor on a cocktail of magnesium sulfate, and gets a drip of sugar water in lieu of food. She can’t eat, because she is…

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A new computer and a new baby (but only one is mine)

By Anna Sawin

So my tired but trusty five-year-old iMac, bought just months before the arrival of my now almost five-year-old boy is about to be relegated to general family use, which, if you ask the almost five-year-old would include looking at pictures of toothy sharks and growling panthers online (nationalgeographic.com) or watching race cars, scuba divers, excavators…

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And some days they can be so sweet your teeth hurt

By Anna Sawin

Just one question. When, exactly, did they get this big? Will, age 4 3/4 Henry, age 2 3/4

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Some days you just want to pretend they aren’t yours

By Anna Sawin

Scene: Busy YMCA family locker room, packed to the gills with kids and parents post swimming lessons. Players: Will and Henry, darling preschool-aged brothers, in the shower (a handicapped-accessible room with a door) rinsing off after their lesson. Mom, the gorgeous, slim, thirty something mother of Will and Henry, frequently mistaken for their big sister…

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No chicken, just babies

By Anna Sawin

Hope that wasn’t too tasteless for you all, to have the naked babies anchoring a page on how to cook chicken breasts. By way of apology I give you more twin boys and fewer chicken breasts. P.S. Cannot WAIT to see what my Google search terms reveal today! Aren’t these onesies great? My co-photographer-in-crime for…

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Food Friday: Balsamic Chicken

By Anna Sawin

Twin boys, age 2 1/2 weeks, still one week from their due date. Taken March 16, 2009. Wondering what these gorgeous little loves have to do with Food Friday and chicken? Not much, except I made this when visiting these fellows last weekend, and I am convinced it is so easy even the sleep-deprived, frazzled…

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