Last night was Phase One of our family Christmas this year, with a dinner at Uncle D & Aunt J's lovely new house, the main purpose of which was so the rest of the family could see Sis & the Amazing Niece & give them presents. Aunt J loves to cook but this year she's had a cold for the last week, so she only did some of the cooking. I kinda got ( Read more... )

Snow Water's Yule was tonight- a mostly Norse affair dedicated to Skadi. IT went *really* well, especially considering that it was mostly written by M who's very new to ADF & to doing things in a historical/scholarly way. Prior to our little group, she's worked primarily with eclectic Wiccan groups & sometimes she's had issues with bridging the ( Read more... )

The Metals Club Show Opening was Wednesday. Fun! Well, it wasn't well attended in general but my Mom & my sister came down & even brought beautiful baby niece with them. So I got to show off my work & my adorable niece at the same time. It was agreed by all that she is indeed a beautiful, adorable baby ( Read more... )

I told singingwren yesterday that two musical bits always improve my mood- the band They Might Be Giants & the Pixies song "Here Comes Your Man."

I just got reminded of something else that's guaranteed to make me feel better-- new pictures of my beautiful baby niece! :)