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Wayback Wednesday

By Anna Sawin

My 15th college reunion is coming up this weekend, and as a class officer doing the behind-the-scenes preparations, I’ve had my head squarely stuck in the late 80s and early 90s. You know, listening to my (thanks, Jess!) “Eighties Child” mix tape now on iTunes, reminiscing on our class blog and adding to our class…

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Parts and pieces

By Anna Sawin

Sometimes I can’t decide if I love all the individual parts and pieces of them more, or if it’s the whole delicious whole that I love the most. For more Best Shot Monday, click here.

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Food Friday: Chicken and Corn Chowder

By Anna Sawin

It’s about the fortieth rainy Friday in a row today, and while I greet rain with enthusiasm for the green growth it represents, I would greet it with slightly more enthusiasm if it fell on a day when I wasn’t home. With two boys. Inside. It isn’t just rainy, either, it’s rainy and chilly. Like…

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As promised

By Anna Sawin

A while back I asked if you thought it would be wrong to encourage ill-mannered behavior that I am ultimately going to abolish if I can encourage it just long enough to get it on video? I did, and I did. I think I gave it a little too much buildup, but it felt like…

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helloooooooo?

By Anna Sawin

Yes, still here, actually. Just not HERE very much this week. But I definitely have a treat for you tomorrow. I PROMISE.

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Food Friday: Candlewax?

By Anna Sawin

Between Henry’s molars (I get it! You are erupting! Thank you!) work, out-of-state travel, early sunrises and a few other things, I’ve been burning the candle on both ends so badly this week that I think they just met in the middle. Which is another way of saying I have nothing much for you today.…

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The Merry Month of May

By Anna Sawin

Happy May Day! Image from Will’s nursery school May Day walk, taken today as 16 nursery-schoolers hung May baskets on houses throughout the village. Wouldn’t you like to come to find that hanging on your door? Wishing you a day of unexpected surprises, too.

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Behind the scenes at Real Simple

By Anna Sawin

So last week, I was one of five lucky women to be photographed in NYC for a story in the July 2008 issue of Real Simple. The story is about “upgrading your casual look” and upgrade me they did, with a hot pink and orange Tory Burch linen top and a pair of 7 for…

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Mama’s got a new pair of shoes

By Anna Sawin

It was awesome, wonderful and amazing, and I can’t wait to share all the photos and stories later. Like wait til you hear all the amazing celebrities my MANICURIST has worked on. That she told me about while she was doing my nails and toes. But in the meantime, I have two little monkeys here…

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Live from New York, it’s Thursday morning

By Anna Sawin

I’m in New York right now, waking up in the poshest hotel in existence. Even the hotel employees are hipsters, and I think there is some serious irony that Real Simple has put up five women who have “traded style for comfort” at this hotel. I’m just saying. Everyone here at this hotel is skinny,…

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