domestic dilettante, humorless feminist shrew

Happy Holidays!

I keep thinking that I’m going to write up the pattern for Maura’s mittens, or for some of the fingerless gloves that I’m churning out, but it’s been one of those weeks. Maura’s been sick, I’m on new medication that’s sort of kicking my ass, and Nick’s job situation is changing, not for the better. [...]

Two nights ago, Maura very mournfully informed me that she couldn’t keep her hands warm at recess. Why, you ask? Obviously because I hadn’t knitted her any mittens. It definitely has nothing at all to do with the fact that she’s already lost one of the gloves from the pair I bought her last week. [...]

Over the weekend, friends of ours had a make-stuff party. A few weeks ago we got the invite: Come over to our house and make stuff! It would not be exaggerating to say that stuff-making is one of my favorite activities, so, obviously, we were totally pumped.
I think I did more crafting this weekend than [...]

Over the weekend, Nick, Maura and I piled into the car and headed up to Cleveland to go to the Bazaar Bizarre.
Well, all right–Nick and I went, and Maura went and hung out with my mother and two of my aunts, who were (conveniently) also in the area that day. We caravanned up with [...]