This year's cookie selection: lemon, chocolate chip and walnut, and Claire Saffitz's pistachio pinwheel cookies. Baby's first pinwheels turned out alright, I think!

@aureanator.bsky.social crashed before we could break into the black cake, so we're saving that for tomorrow. And I got a late start today, so I'm ending the day baking cookies instead of beginning the day that way, so cookie tasting will wait until tomorrow, too.

"Paid maternity leave" sounds like feminist nanny-state claptrap. These women* need to marry and procreate with white, God-fearing, Christian men who will support them and their many, many white babies, like nature intended.

That was bizarre. I'm not surprised that there are people walking around who feel this way, but getting this kind of direct confirmation of their existence is unsettling.

I've always dreamed of a laundry/mudroom with two bathtubs in it. Perfection.

I bought a couple of these last month for the tins to make black cake in in a couple of weeks. Eating the cookies has been a smack of nostalgia, for sure! 😄