Leah, ya know? 💜🥔

Thank you! 😁😁😁

🥰🥰🥰

Boo to bad cold but snuggly fur baby, the best way for art to imitate life 🥰🥰

The idea of him wishing Claire was more resistant is so interesting to me — like he's both sad that she's so accustomed to war and things going wrong, and also wants her to push back because he won't refuse the call of duty on his own behalf but would as an act of care for her 💜

🤗🤗🤗

Actually caring husband plus cat, I cannot blame you...🥹

Even if for some reason it keeps being kinda scrunchy and uneven at the edges, the double crochet bonanza of big granny square plus shell stitch is very relaxing!

Wednesday 100: In the Cold Midwinter She tells Jamie that it's just a bad cold caught from one of the grandchildren last week, which is true. It's also true that she feels terrible. Nevertheless, waking alone in bed, she stumbles toward the kitchen to feed Adso; it's part of her routine, so there's no reason for Jamie to think of it before leaving. And yet he's there, crouched to stroke down the soft back. "Go on, eat yer fill," he's saying. "And then get back up to yer mistress — keep those cold wee feet o' hers warm, aye?" Aching head, cracked throat and all, Claire smiles.

Hitting some actual winter temps here in Boston, plus cold and flu season (although the most dramatic children's room coughing has actually been from a kid who was sobbing so hard about a coloring page that she made herself choke 💀) so here's some related JC fluff for #Wednesday100!

Thanks, friend!! Going to one of my lesser favorite cousins once his baby is born 😂

Hooray! I've been loving doing blankets that are just big granny squares 😁

Okay, I thought that I was in my "actually know how to do shell stitch borders" era, but it turns out that the era is in fact "still learning to do shell stitch borders" 💀

Ahhh, I'm so excited already!! 🙌🙌

Thank you!! 🥰🥰

That's really sweet, thank you, Jeanee 🫶🫶

Yeah...😪

Thanks as always to Danielle/ @smashingteacups.bsky.social who made sure that this chapter didn't go up containing a major point of confusion!

Taking a quick break from post-holiday travel cooking to present this to you! Chapter 11 of And Be Two Travelers is up now (and I request that you remember our season of kindness and gratitude while reading!): archiveofourown.org/works/682664...

Happy birthday to our sweet (and occasionally spicy 😘) sunshine @dannnniiii.bsky.social! I hope that you have a wonderful day and an amazing year ahead 🎉🎉

Damn, we're winning, son!!

Happy birthday, Laura!! I hope you have some delightful moments today and some sweet surprises in your year to come 🫶🫶

Thank you, Felice! Same to you 💜💜

Exactly, and she values all her blessings so much 🥹🥹

Lollll, Claire and Faith teamwork 😂

Just the three of them quietly passing potatoes and green beans, oof 🥲🥲

Hooray, thank you 🥰🥰🥰

S5 has so much cozy, subtle gratitude to it for me (in between the Trauma™️...)

Wednesday 100: Small Blessings Dissections aside, Bree is perfectly handy with medicines. They mix and bottle companionably until Bree comments, "It's almost the end of November. Should I try to hunt down a turkey?" It's lightly said, yet Claire remembers those quiet Thanksgivings in Boston, gritting her teeth alongside Frank, trying to make things festive because Bree meant something to them even if the day didn't. It would be different here, busy with family and true gratitude, yet as she hugs her daughter to her side she says, "Only if you want to, darling. I'm finding bits of thanksgiving all the time these days."

This one isn't my favorite #Wednesday100 tbh (can't totally decide if it's in character) but something nice happened at 10 AM and it made me want to do a Thanksgiving-y themed drabble so I postponed the planned one and knocked this one out instead

Congrats on such a huge accomplishment, Cassie! 🫶🫶

Nature is heeling!! 🎉🎉

Truly who suffers more than me and my two other kinds of muffin tins? 😔