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Food Friday: Double Dipping! Part 1—Brit’s Pub Artichoke Dip

By Anna Sawin

Okay, it may be late on a Friday, but I wouldn’t let you down. Most Fridays, anyway. It being February and past the holier-than-thou diet month of January, I think we can loosen up a little on the healthy stuff, plus I hear there is a big game this weekend. While I’m not a football…

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You should SEE the bite marks on my hand

By Anna Sawin

The thing they don’t tell you in advance about parenting? Is how VERY HARD it can be some days not to laugh. Also, how VERY HARD to know what the right answer is. Yesterday Will and I were rolling along in the car after his morning at nursery school, and he asks, in what can…

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Baby faces

By Anna Sawin

I had a great weekend visit with college friends for our annual Christmas (or thereabouts) gift swap and a surprise baby shower at the same time. Friends came from all over to gather together just a few months before our fifteenth college reunion, and we had great fun—and great food, too, of course. The pregnant…

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Food Friday: Died and Gone to Heaven Chocolate Cake

By Anna Sawin

So, I was all set to tell a potty story today, but it seemed in poor taste (ha!) coupled with Food Friday, especially given the recipe I am presenting today. And that’s all I’m going to say about that. You’ll just have to stay tuned for exciting! potty! stories! * * * I was trying…

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Not a post but not not a post, either

By Anna Sawin

I have about three minutes to write a post, so I can: A) continue to leave you with my little chickens pecking corn off the floor or, B) write a fake post that will look a lot like a real post because it takes up space, except that it doesn’t really say anything, so is…

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It’s a good thing they can be so sweet

By Anna Sawin

Because some days I need a good reminder as to why we keep them. And yes, those are corn kernels sticking to their bodies. And yes, they ran around around the house after this picture was taken, scattering corn kernels everywhere. And yes, they were EATING them off the floor. Which wouldn’t be so bad…

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Food Friday: Skinny Pot Pie and Skinny Mac-n-Cheese

By Anna Sawin

Before I get on with today’s exciting post I have a little bit of housekeeping to take care of. (You can file this under the category of NOT THAT YOU ASKED AND WHY, EXACTLY, DO I THINK YOU CARE?) I think I unfairly represented the number of page views I get, and since so many…

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Hope is the thing with green, poking out of the ground

By Anna Sawin

Well, thank you all. You sure know how to make a girl feel good with your enthusiastic comments. I got a few really nice surprises in the mix, and was SO GLAD to hear from each and every one of you commenters. I am still wondering who the OTHER 850 or so people are, especially…

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Come out, come out, wherever you are

By Anna Sawin

Sorry for the repeat, but this photo is comedy GOLD, how could I not rerun it? A few times a year in the blogging world you see posts about Delurking Day—a day when bloggers request that their readers briefly leave the shelter of their anonymity and leave a comment on their blog. But since I…

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The whole poop and nothing but the poop

By Anna Sawin

So, three and a half years into this parenting gig, I finally had the kind of poop experience that you hear stories about before you have kids. (Hi Megan, I do still remember your blueberry poop story!) So, soon-to-be first time parents? STEP AWAY from the computer screen and go rock serenely for a few…

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