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Go someplace else

By Anna Sawin

Just for today! Read these other great bloggers and then come back and I promise I will be less busy! and more fun!  really! Remember Mr. Nice Guy? Who quit blogging for a while, then missed us so much he came back? He came clean with his identity and has a parenting blog at Newsweek.com,…

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Oh right, the blog

By Anna Sawin

Sorry about that little unintentional hiatus. My to-do list this week, no matter where I keep it, keeps getting longer, not shorter and I haven’t found the Web 2.0 app to fix that yet. Any ideas? * * * Dear Henry, I know you hear me sighing a lot about how you aren’t a little…

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Food Friday: King Arthur’s Flour, The Baker’s Store and Shortbread

By Anna Sawin

I know it’s been a little thin around here on Food Fridays (ha! not that thin, really) but believe me, if you think the writing about food has been sparse in the last few weeks, you should try eating here. I heart Trader Joe’s Roasted Vegetable Pizzas! But anyway. Spring is on the verge of…

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Baby’s Got Back (up)

By Anna Sawin

I knew I should have backed up all those photos! You all sure know how to come through on the organizational advice. If this wasn’t my own blog I would bookmark it just based on all the good stuff you came up with for organizing my life and my photos. Now if someone would just…

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I stopped counting at 25,000

By Anna Sawin

* * * William, age 3 1/2 February 2008 Henry, age 20 months February 2008 * * * My name is Anna and I have a confession. I have taken more than 25,000 digital photos since 2004. That felt good. Given my recent stab at organizing and the fact that the biggest flaw in my…

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Again with the poop

By Anna Sawin

There is a certain karma surrounding me these days, and it seems to have a whole lot to do with poop. For example, a friend sent me this not too long ago, and I smiled and shook my head while reading, thinking “there but for the grace of God go I.” There was Henry and…

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To do today: tell me how you stay organized

By Anna Sawin

So, readers…help a list-crazy-but-never-quite-organized-enough person out. I’m a sucker for the Next Best Thing (NBT) that will magically keep me organized, and yet I rarely commit enough to anything to give it a fair shake. I’m all about the lists, but WHERE to keep them? And HOW BEST to use them? After an intensive discussion…

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Windows of the soul

By Anna Sawin

Battling technology and CV joints here. Also, playing in the snow and celebrating our new swimmer, Will, who paddled free of my grip this weekend, on purpose! What’s new with you? For Best Shot Monday, I experimented with a little photo technique I like to call GETTINGREALLYCLOSE. H & W’s cousin Nora was, as always,…

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“Rewarding and cheap because it is a Buick”

By Anna Sawin

Double click  below, to read the subject of this entry at full size. Seriously. It’s worth it.  Evidently it isn’t enough that I have to suffer through valentines-as-paper-airplanes. My father-in-law sent this little gem along today, explaining that I have this kind of thing to look forward to, also. Times two. I’ve stopped laughing just…

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How to charm me

By Anna Sawin

Sneeze or cough, and immediately say “God blesh you!” to yourself. And say the same for anyone else around you who sneezes or coughs, and wait expectantly for acknowledgment.

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