June 2012
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This Weekend: Engagement Party!
This weekend, my aunt and uncle were kind enough to host an engagement party for Ben and me.
We’ve been engaged for six months (how did that happen?!) and together for nearly six years but our families have spent little time together. So my aunt and uncle hosted our close family and the bridal party at their beautiful home in New Canaan, CT on Saturday for an afternoon of food, drink and...
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Long Island Wedding Weekend
This weekend marked our first wedding weekend of the summer. We only have two this summer but the second, in August, is a double header with a Friday night wedding in MA and a Saturday night wedding in CT. It was nice to ease into wedding festivities this weekend in the lovely Greenport, NY.
I’ve only been to Long Island twice in my life, both very short trips, so I was very excited to...
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Recently Read: The House at Riverton
You know a book was good when days later you are still thinking about the characters you spent so much time reading about. I finished The House at Riverton over Memorial Day Weekend and am still thinking about the protagonist, Grace, and the people that surrounded her story.
98-year-old Grace tells the story of her time as a housemaid at Riverton after a movie director asks for her assistance...
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this weekend...
This is a bit overdue but…
Friday was for a day off and wedding dress shopping with my mom and one of my wonderful bridesmaids, Chrissy.
We started with breakfast at The Pembroke Room at the Lowell Hotel before we headed to our first stop, J.Crew.
Then we headed downton to Saja on Elizabeth St. and were thrilled to find Tacombi right across the street afterwards, we were famished.
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short but sweet: 10 simple tips to reduce stress →
littlelaur:
1. Let go of the need to feel in control.
A lot of our stress comes from feeling the need to be in control of events that are sometimes out of our control. Let go of the need to be in control all the time. This will take so much unnecessary stress out of your life.
2. Go for a walk.
If…
