East Coast Girl

Well, I gotta tell you, Cape Cod is where it's at. Man, that is the life. i could get into that. Reminds me so much of Michigan living but with awesome Seafood and salt water. My weekend consisted of Pearl Jam, BBQ's, James Blunt concert (jealous Lyd?), sailing, walking, blah, blah, blah. It was great. The weather here is to die for. My goal this week is to work out 6 days. I am also off to Texas on Sunday for a golf outing. I booked a 6am flight so I could get there early enough to lay out at my hotel pool before my 6pm dinner. I should be poolside by 10:15, muuuahahahahaha. Can't wait for Costa Rica. Need to get myself a passport. Rager at mom's sounds good. Looking forward to my labor day rager myself. Love to all.

Houston Weekend

Well, Mom and I had quite a weekend. We headed to Tejas and went to visit our relatives, Halle and Thurman Clark in Victoria. These two are quite the couple. They are hysterical and tell jokes and laugh all day. Their house is on 750 acres with a river, lake and lots of cows and oak trees. Their home was decorated by the same interior designer as granny's house so you really felt granny's presence. I saw pictures of granny was she was in her 20s and she was so thin and beautiful. We went to a wedding that night which was over the top and at the wedding we met a lot of granny's old friends, including valerie smith's sister who was so beautiful. My friend Carter who got married looked beautiful and it was so fun (sortof) to see my old Vanderbilt friends. We went back to Houston the next day and mom and I did a little damage at the galleria and at DSW shoe warehouse! Yikes! But we never shop so we felt like we deserved it. We also stopped by granny's grave which was really nice. This week, I am planning my birthday dinner. Everybody is coming over and I'm cooking up something delish I hope. This next weekend, a bunch of my friends are heading up to mom and mike's house for a pool/tennis/bbq weekend. So excited!! Should be a great group of peeps.
Hope everybody had a great memorial day weekend. Love all. Lucas is so precious!!!

Ugghhhhh

What is worse than getting up at 5:30 to sweat in 105 degrees you ask? That would be waking up at 5:30 and arriving at the yoga studio only to find out that they are closed for Memorial Day Weekend!!!!!!!! I was even in my new outfit. Oh well. My friend and I just ended up going on a 6 mile walk that was really pleasant since it was so early.

Its 10 pm and I only have 8 hours before....

I sweat like a little banchi at hot yoga at yes, 6 am tomorrow. By the way, I just finished a tennis match an hour ago. Do I look like Madonna yet???! The great news is that the style this season is right up my alley. Romantic flowy items, empire waist, just the hippie loose look. Love it. Haven't written in a while, sorry. Lucille, you know I love your fabric. Monkeys rock!! We had a really busy weekend last weekend and unfortunately I was reminded that Jello shots make my head hurt! I swear I just recovered from a party last Saturday. Have a fun party weekend this week as well. The kids got out of school yesterday so we have just been at the pool nonstop. Love it. It is ironic that now that I run all over the place at the pool and never just lay there that I now, for the first time in my life, have an even all over tan. Go figure. No more strip down the side for me. Looking forward to our very long trip to the Valley this summer. June 21st-July 9th. So fun. Baker is really into tennis right now so he can't wait to play every day at Bitsy's. Lucas is beautiful Chaz. He reminds me of Baker as a baby. So happy for you guys. Love to all.

Hump Day

Wow, Magoo, that IS diferent and I just love your ideas for the pillows. I am sure that your apartment will look awesome next time I come to town. I am off for Pearl Jam early tomorrow morning but before I do that I am getting a bikini wax, going to the gym for an hour tonight and going to Raoul's for dinner in SoHo with Lindsay. Counting the minutes until I am beaching it at the Cape with Fisher. Have a nice long weekend!

I found it!!!

After weeks of looking for the perfect fabric for my living room, I've found it! I want to make four pillows for my couch soI am going to get 3 yards of this fabric and then use certain parts to make pillows. One pillow will be the strawberry in the middle, another will be one of the monkeys, the third the lion's head (which is not that dark of brown, the photo just looks that way, it's more wheat colored) and the fourth will be the leaf to the right of the strawberry. It is really not normal how excited I am about this fabric. Damn this design stuff is so fun!!! I hope it will look good. This weekend, we went to the MoMA and got a sculpture thing that hangs over the fireplace on invisable string and it is red like the color of the red in this fabric. Anyhoo, I'm having a bunch of friends over for my birthday next week so I want to get it done in time! Once again, the Shaw Sweat House is back in business.

Chazzie, please can we see pics of Lucas? I know things are crazy but I'm dying to see his cute little face! Love everybody!

Monday

Well, busy week here. I have Lindsay and her friend (yes, 3 people and 450 square feet) until Thursday and my boss is in town. Lots of work and play. The weather is awesome. Only 4 days to go and I am off to Boston for grunge music and Cape Cod. Had a good day yesterday and went to the museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and really enjoyed it. I liked the photography and design floor much more than the paintings. After that, we went to the Spotted Pig which is this really cool restaurant and sat next to Helena Christianson (sp). Have a good week.

That's my boy

Dill picked up Baker from school yesterday and took him to the Braves game. His first one. This is Baker on TV that I paused on Tivo and took a picture of. They were in the 2nd row behind home plate. He loved it. As for me, for some reason I went to a hot yoga class this morning at 6 am. The room is 105 degrees. I thought I was going to suffacate, but am going again on Monday. Love to all. Pictures please Chazzie!!

More Shaw's

Thanks for the call, Chaz. I am so excited for you and I hope you and your growing family are doing well in Sweden.

Congratulations Chaz & Lena

I LOVE the name Lucas Charles. I can't wait to meet him. I hope Lena is doing well. Please take photos and send them along. I love you both and wish you all the best and am so glad that you are all back together again.

L

Good Luck Tomorrow

Chaz and Lena!! Can't wait to hear the news.

Songs we sing

Luc, I highly recommend that you get your hands on a Matt Costa CD. Perfect summer music. Sounds like everyone had a very active weekend. I am having a blast with Mike. We ran all over the city restaurant crawling and tomorrow I am taking a couple people to the tasting and Lindsay Buehler is going too. The weather here stinks- the kind of weather that blows your umbrella inside out and you walk inside soaking wet. Chaz, I sat next the Swedish Royal family at Fredrick's. Kinda funny to see the Queen of Sweden dancing to Nelly. They were surrounded with whatever their equivalent of the secret service is. Pretty interesting. Hope everyone has a good week.

I can't wait to be a mother...

Then I can slave out my children for a day just like our mom. Today I hoed, weeded, watered, dug, scrubbed, organized, swept, planted...it just goes on and on. I also saw a snake, a scorpion, a mouse with maggots in it and lots of lizards that I thought were snakes every time. I fear I may have become a city girl. But we still managed to have fun and the yard looks much better.

Now I'm making brownies and will head back to the city tonight. It was 80 degrees and gorgeous today. Got some great sun. Hope everybody had a great weekend!

L

$27,000 big ones

Well, I won $27,000 fake dollars tonight at the blackjack tables. Wish it was real!!! The casino party was a blast. Happy Mother's Day.

Worth the wait

I will say, your blogs are always worth the wait Chazzie. I am so excited for you all and can't wait to hear the news. Be safe. Have a great time with Mike this weekend Lizy and Luc have fun in the valley. We have our big walk in the morning and then our last t-ball game as well. Then tomorrow night is our pool opening party with a Casino Night theme. Should be fun.

Hot date this weekend....

with Mike Beatty (a.k.a. Mr. New York)! Mike gets in on Saturday morning and he has planned a high-class weekend and I am going to wear a fun dress! The man knows his restaurants! We are going to some really nice NYC staples including the oyster bar in Grand Central Station, Gotham Bar and Grille and drinks at Balthazar! I have to tell you, I am really excited to see a familiar face. Unfortunately, it is supposed to rain all weekend which is a big drag. I have officially sent the big invite for Labor Day weekend in Napa with about 8 friends. It should be really, really fun! My friend Simone and I just bought our tickets and Critter, Becker and Steve are coming Magoo! It will be wild. Tuesday night is the wine tasting at Mike's hotel and I am taking Simone and Lindsay Buehler and then we are going to dinner. My trainer is kicking my butt! Love to all!

On My Way

Hi Guys. Sorry I have been remiss. I have just been swamped at work and in getting ready to leave. I leave in the morning. Can't wait. I thought I would enjoy this temporary bachelorhood but the truth is I just miss my family. Every day I come home and the house is empty. Oscar's toys are about and I can't not look at all the family pictures and I start to get sad. Not that I took it for granted but I now know how much I enjoy coming home to Oscar and Lena every day. We are almost there though and while it was obviously not an ideal situation, we had to do what we had to do. Lena is doing well and Oscar is doing great. He loves his school and has really learned a lot. He is quite a talker. Of course, he only speaks Swedish. I am going to have to learn more if I want to communicate with him at all though once we get back to the States, I am sure that will change. We have a great girl that has been helping us out a lot too. It is one of our best friend's sisters and she is so cute. She just adores Oscar. Work is going great. We actually might have gotten Citigroup as a client- the biggest bank in the world. Not bad for a little shop like ours. We also appeared in Crain's today and were in the Sun Times last week. I have been doing a lot of work around the house. We painted some rooms and rearranged the kids room. Boy, Lucille, I sure could use you. I will contact everyone as soon as we have any news. As it stands now, we check in for delivery on Tuesday and will probably be in the hospital until Thursday or Friday. I will stay another week after that and return on Memorial Day. Then it is back to Chicago for 3 weeks by myself. Then, I go back for Midsommar and another week at the island we went to after our wedding which is my favorite place to go now. It is like Nantucket in the old days. No cars are allowed. We will be there for the Volvo Cup (one of the greatest sailing races in the world each year) as well as a concert that Pella and his band are doing. It should be great but that is a long ways away. We have much to do before then. I love you all. XOXO. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms here.

Finally, it's Thursday

Well, very busy week in Chicago. I saw Lindsay, Alex, Dad, Carrie and all my work buddies. Costa Rica is really coming around and I just realized that I need to get a passport! Micheal comes this weekend and I can't wait. Only two weeks until Pearl Jam and Cape Cod. Yippie. Love the hat, Lyd. Hope all is well.

The Hat

Just finished this hat for Baker last night. Cute. Need cold weather though. Love to all.

Costa Rica is in a month and 16 days

yippee! i'm getting really pumped for this trip. we went surfing this weekend for the first time in months and it felt great. i forgot how much i love it. this weekend was jam packed - two wedding showers, a birthday, a beach day, a house party and a two year anniversary. I had to buy so many cards at Hallmark, it was overwhelming. But it was fun. Gorgeous weather. Although, the whole concept of wedding showers is a little bizarre to me. It's so awkward to just show up and watch people open presents. I just don't get it, but I'm sure one day I'll be really into it. Lydia, you would have loved EVERYTHING she registered for. Shabby Chic galore. This weekend, mom is coming to the city to go to the decorator's showcase. Lizzie, love the cinco picture, you look great! I finally have a little tan going after two weekends at the beach. Feeling a little cuter. Can't wait for 'what about brian' on TV tonight - so good! Love everybody.

You can thank me later Lizzy!

Because I just sent in your application for the Bachelor and they are casting now!! Keep your fingers crossed. I sent the picture that was just you with the guy cut out that you sent. Yippie. Dill is in Denver and it is rainy here so I am entertaining myself with your television future! Great weekend of T-Ball and hanging out. The painter starts on Wednesday, finally. He keeps moving it back. Our pool opens tomorrow which is soooo frightening. Baker is fired up since his swim team starts up in 2 weeks. It was fun talking to you yesterday Luc. Wish I could have visited Shabby Chic with you. Could definately do some damage there. Especially since I am knee deep in decorating Mary Rowe's room. We should really change are blog name from Shawbang to Shawsisters. That is my threat to the rest of you who are not participating. I want an update!!! You know who you are...mom, chaz and clark!!!!

Party like it's 2002

Well, I revisited my college partying roots this weekend. Carrie came for the weekend and we had a ball, but I feel quite brain dead. Went bike riding in central Park again, took the south street seaport ferry around the statue of liberty, hung out at the Hoboken art fest, etc, etc. The goodie bag from the "Beauty Awards" is really out of control. My bathroom in crawling with products. I leave for Chicago today and I am getting my haircut this afternoon. Have not decided whether or not to go short or just trim but i DO know that I need some serious highlights. I get home on Wednesday night and then I will look forward to Mike's visit on Saturday. I am going to take Simone to the wine tasting and she is VERY fired up. Cinco De Mayo was a bust but usually anything I am really excited for tends to fizzle. Have a good week!

I want a goody bag too!!

Ok, I would be totally over the top jelous of both of your respective goody bags this week if we had not gotten a care package from Lizzy of the most unbelievable peanut butter ever. I love the white chocolate pb, Baker and MR the dark chocolate pb and Dill the Cinnamon/Raisin pb. Yummy. Thanks Liz. Our painter starts on Monday so we are just trying to get things done with weekend. Still a little nutty in the yard right now. Have a T-Ball game tomorrow. Dinner with friends on Sunday and then on Tuesday, our pool opens. Yippppieee. Cannot wait. School gets out here in 2 weeks so summer is here.

Happy Cinco de Mayo

da da da da da da da da da! la cucharacha la cucharacha......

Hello Bloggers

Back in new York after a nice 5 (busy) days in Chicago. It felt REALLY nice to be home and was able to spend some time with Kristi and Chaz. I found out that Alex is doing a semester abroad in Paris so I am going to visit her for her birthday (ours are 7 days apart) and hang in Europe with her for 5 days. Pretty excited about that one. Carrie comes this weekend and I am VERY excited for Cinco De Mayo tomorrow. Also, I am going to the "Cosmetic Executive Women" beauty awards at the Walfdorf for work tomorrow. We work with all the cosmetic companies here (L'oreal, maybelline, etc...) so we are going to cheer on our clients. Here's the kicker, the goodie bag is supposed to be AWESOME. Can't wait to check it out. Nothing beats a free bag of beauty products.

The Beach

Wow Lydia. What a weekend! I hope Dill survived! The gardening sounds like a lot of fun. You sound busy. Hope the event you had at your house went well. Yesterday I spent the entire day on the beach soaking up the sun. I actually got a little bit of a tan! It felt so good to be out there. I plan to do the exact same thing this weekend. Unfortunately, Justin's guy lost the battle this weekend - the delegate's endorsement went to Phil Angelides instead. Big bummer but our guy is still up 13 points in the polls. Lizzie, I think Justin might be able to Costa Rica. It's looking possible. Yippee!! I'm excited for us to all hang out together. I had a really bizarre dinner last night with Sabrina and her friend who is writing a book called Calendar Girl and it is about her year of sleeping with a different guy every month and all of the stories that go with it. Her stories are hysterical and she was telling all of us these stories (about Mr. March, Mr. May) at the dinner table at Justin's mom's house!!!! I couldn't believe it, but woh, it was funny.
Work is great, although I'm currently overwhelmed by trim, fringe and tassels. I can't believe how many options there are! It's incredible. Off to dinner...love everybody!