Ladies Who Lunch, or Em Comes to Cook for Us!
Normally, today would have been a Ladies Who Lunch day. Pay attention. It’s every other weekend with the off weekends being Stitch n Bitches, naturally. Saturday or Sunday are decided on earlier in the week, depending on what other plans we’ve all hatched. Anyee, as I mentioned yesterday, everyone was either sick or busy and Talea and I were planning on spending the day in our respective homes knitting under the gun for Christmas. However, Em’s plans changed and she was able to come over after all! Yay! First of all, know that we are so alike in some ways it’s kind of creepy (we scold the kids with exactly the same phrases at exactly the same time, and our recorded voices sound *exactly* the same) and, since the world has a wonderful way of balancing out, there are probably an equal number of ways we are not alike at all. This photo is an illustration of the similarity, that and how cute she is!
For this and many other reasons, she (along with Miss Talea) is now Auntie to my wee children. After she made a wonderful arugula salad, she jumped right in with the Christmas themed domestic bliss that is my house. Here she is in all her Auntie glory making Cinnamon Polar Bear Cookies!
They turned out so well I think we’ll whip up a few dozen for Richard’s Christmas party. The child is more of a social butterfly than I am (most of the time). I just love how wee cute and yet delish these things are, I am smitten by a cookie, I must be stopped.
I am more than a little surprised with myself for not taking a ‘May and YOU!’ photo of us today, but I was so wrapped up in the fun I totally forgot! Boo! No knitting was done on the sock today, because I must concentrate on this damn thing or I screw it up and have to rip it back. I took a break, to work on dear Talea’s gift. For about a week now, her gift and I haven’t been speaking. It’s fallen off double pointed needles, it’s magically increased stitches and magically decreased stitches, and frankly I’m at a point in my knitting education that I just don’t make mistakes like that anymore so it must be the project itself trying to vex me. I picked it up again tonight, once the kids were in bed and we’d settled in for a long night of smoking in the basement, it finally happened. Her gift and I made up! And since I’d imagine she may read this, I will only post a fuzzy photo of the beginnings of what is going to be a fantastic gift now that I don’t hate it anymore. 
izzy99 said,
December 3, 2007 at 7:51 pm
No comment on Talea’s, um, toy, but love the cookie.
Emerald said,
December 3, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Gah! I feel loved. I love that picture of me with the naughty chocolate. And I think Izzy99 there confused me with Auntie T. Richard shall have to teach her his mnemonic device.
Talea said,
December 3, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Eeeeee! I’m so excited that I got a glimpse of my Chrismtas gift!!
And I had NO idea that you were making Chirstmas cookies!! I would have abandoned the boyfriend and come over!
Oh well, oh well.
I’ve decided that for my next project, I want to make a shoulder bag. But I don’t know how to read the patterns. they say things I don’t understand. I need your help this weekend!!
kelly said,
December 4, 2007 at 9:44 am
Hey may- love the kangaroo and the polar bear cookie! I particularly like icing cookies, so I think I’ll try it, but ice it up to make it super sweet. hmmmm, holiday sweetness…
Linds said,
December 4, 2007 at 11:34 am
I think I’m a knitting dunce.
May, could you knit me a Dunce cap?
Seriously, Talea, you can’t read the patterns? I can’t even grasp the basics!
Boo Urns!
Perhaps next time, I’ll just come with the yarn and braid it while I hang out with all of you!
bless!
talea said,
December 4, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Linds, I love you and your ‘bless’. You’ll get it! I was a dunce too!
greenmetropolis said,
December 5, 2007 at 9:02 am
I love Linds’ “A thousand Christmases rolled into one, baby!” That and the “Ouuiiiiiii”. Excellent.
Josh said,
December 9, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Wow. That photo of Emerald holding the big black edible cock is something I will remember forever. Thank you for that. Also, she doesn’t really post normal pictures of herself very often, so it was kind of cool to see her just hanging out instead of really close to the camera, or dressed like a botched abortion, or just her ass in your kids face.
So you must be that super mom that Auntie M was raving about recently. The one with children who aren’t fueled by Satan like most kids. The one who can do anything perfectly with little or no effort. Nice to meet you. The cookies look delicious. And the mystery thing looks very … uh … colorful, and mysterious and stuff. Rock on with your bad self.
greenmetropolis said,
December 14, 2007 at 10:26 am
I LOOOOVE the look on woog’s face in that cookie-making picture. She seems uber pissed that she’s not allowed near the kitchen power tools.