Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The last farmers market of the season was this morning. I gave Little Bit a budget of $10 to spend in ones. We worked on looking at the signs to see if things were in budget and making decisions on what she wanted to buy. The shop owners loved it and helped her in learning. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When you are wrapping presents and realize you don’t have any present ribbon, but you do have a lot of sewing ribbon! 030
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s “Decades Day” at Little Bit’s school tomorrow, and my Mother In Law came through with these authentic 90’s girls dresses. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Disney offers Princess makeovers at both their parks and on their cruises. We have one booked for Little Bit for her 5th birthday. They charge anywhere from $100-$350 for the dresses, or you can bring your own. Mama’s cue to say “hold my needle!” One Belle dress, some assembly required. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Turns out if your local community theatre offers adult musical theatre jazz classes, you can just sign up for those. Will you be in a class with mostly high school students? Yes. Will you still have fun and move, stretch, and get your heart rate up? Also YES! 040
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026When a friend asks for a Pot of Beans for a local fundraiser, and you are a member of the Rancho Gordo Bean Club, it is your solem duty to provide a delicious pot of beans! 020
Reposted by Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡Walt Spookman @waltshitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026“Fantasy author” is a fake job created by Big Hat to sell big black hats. 652403618
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Little Bit’s favorite game recently is “Brave Knight” where she asks us what dangers need to be fought in the kingdom. And sometimes Mama’s brain can’t come up with more monsters. Luckily WotC has my back. 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026@mithradatesvi.bsky.social hates when I do “Mommy Blog” recipes. But I counter with two things, first NYT and ATK recipe developers don’t make dump and bake casseroles. Second Little Bit went back for thirds on tonight’s cheesy chicken and rice bake. 041
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026When @mithradatesvi.bsky.social goes to the fancy stationary store, and Little Bit always wants to be just like Papa 030
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Keeping up with the hair products of a 4 1/2 year old who’s Grandma loves trinkets is a bit of a chore. Before and After! 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Little Bit was sad because she wanted to attack Papa, but he was outside and she didn’t want to put shoes on. So I taught her the term “ambush.” 151
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It wouldn’t be the morning of the comic convention if we couldn’t find a piece of a costume! Somehow the hat for @mithradatesvi.bsky.social has gone completely a-wall in the 10 days since I finished it. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026We are to the point in summer where making the meal plan for the week is torture, I don’t want to think about anything that creates heat, but also I need to plan and buy food for us to eat. 030
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026My new parenting strategy, when bouncing off the walls, remove the walls if possible. This is what brings us to the neighborhood park at 10:30 on a Sunday Morning. 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Ponyo, Ponyo, Ponyo, fishy in the sea Tiny little fishy, who could you really be? Finished sewing Little Bit’s Ponyo costume! 070
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Little Bit wants to be Ponyo for the local comic convention, and I refuse to buy a new pattern for the bloomers. So I hope this works! #justcosplaythings #modifyabasicpattern 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Our current day care uses an app to keep parents informed. The local school district uses the same app for their extended school day and tuition based pre-k, which Little Bit is starting soon. Which would be great! Except now she has 3 profiles in this app that cannot be merged. 😖 010
Reposted by Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡Libro.fm @libro.fm · 09/07/2026"Yes, I do need another sticker from my local bookstore." *Purchases sticker* *Immediately puts sticker into a special sticker box, never to be seen again* 1025730
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Our team is playing like they don’t want to win this. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I’ve seen a lot of discussion on other platforms about Millenial Moms realizing they are no longer Andy, but Andy’s Mom with the release of Toy Story 5. But this happened for me last November with Little Bit started really playing with my old Samantha doll, and it’s a good thing. 130
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026How are we exchanging contact information in 2026? I’m going to a conference soon, not for work but I am going to hopefully meet people and grow my network. Should I print up business cards? Create a QR code? Do people actually use iphone’s share contact feature? 101
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Last fall I went to a Kansas City Current soccer game for my sister’s birthday, and I got a Chawinga bobble head. Tomorrow Little Bit gets to start her first soccer practice, so I started this morning with a highlight real of goals by the team this season to show her about the game. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I was volunteering with an event tonight that had 25 tables of people checking in, and for some reason the check in sheet was sorted by “guest number” which nobody knew. Someone asked me why it wasn’t alphabetically by last name and I just said “not my data set, not my excel sheet” 030
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The local community college in our small town offers a free jazz concert series in June, there are probably 300 people out here enjoying a lovely evening. Ages 6 months to probably 80 year olds. This is what I mean when I say we need more 3rd spaces. 030
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Hype yourself up as if you are a 4 year old who just won an “Invisible Golden Medal” at cornhole while waiting for a table a brunch. 🏅 041
Reposted by Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026There’s a wildfire about 3 miles from my house and headed my general direction. My go bags are ready, the plan is in place. I’ve got Adele’s 21 on the record player, which @macaronbaker.bsky.social tells me is “a bit on the nose.” 3101
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Driving home from my bookstore run at lunch, I bet I could get a page or two in at this red light, no, bad, do not read book while driving! #dungeoncrawlercarl #suportlocalbookstores #aparadeofhorribles #releaseday 021
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Little Bit has been playing with her toy kitchen and also been watching lot of SciShow Kids. This morning she explained in detail how to take geleiten and melt it in hot water, and then let it cool down to make a jelly treat. We’ve never made jello with her, she learned all of this from SciShow. 120
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Most of Little Bits’s “When I grow up” statements follow along the lines of “I’ll take my kids, and do the same thing we have done as a family” And I think that feels like winning at parenting with @mithradatesvi.bsky.social 120
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026ModCloth’s designs this season lean heavily into the 1940’s vibes. I guess if we have to fight fascism we might as well do it in fashion! 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026We have been shopping for a new car and Little Bit knows this. Out of nowhere this evening “When I grow up, I’ll buy a car in my kids favorite color” Too bad for her not very many hybrid SUV’s come in her favorite color. 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Cupcakes for Little Bit’s school Easter egg hunt! 151
Reposted by Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡Jaymar Thee Author @jaymarjackson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026If I say, “We got Ramen at home.” I really mean that 😏 #FoodSky #BlackFoodSky #ChefSky 53113160
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 22/03/2026We’ve been playing a lot of Pokopia, and this morning I’ve found what would be needed to create my ideal habitat. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 14/03/2026My brother in law thought this was the Pinterest concept board for what I wanted to make, rather than a pic of the finished cake. Shared birthday; Minecraft for 11 y/o, candy for 4 y/o. The eyes on the 4 year old were like dinner plates when we cut into it and candy tumbled out the middle. 031
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Birthday cake for 2 nephews in progress. 1/2 the cake will be decorated with candy, hopefully with M&M “confetti” center for the almost 4 year old. The other 1/2 will be Minecraft for the almost 11 year old. 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 08/03/2026In honor of international women’s day, this Outback Steakhouse is playing women’s sports on 2 of their 3 TVs. 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 08/03/2026To the point of the weekend where I suggest to @mithradatesvi.bsky.social that we just stop eating food and wearing clothes, because there would be so many fewer household tasks. 021
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Just throwing this out there, can we retroactively re-assign the Oscar from a mediocre film about Shakespeare and give it to a devastating film about Shakespeare? Just a thought #hamnet 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This month’s book club selection is “Soil” by Camille T. Dungy. I’m only a few chapters in but this notation on the garden layout really speaks to me as a mom. 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Getting Little Bits’ bedtime under control has not worked. I went to do a “last check in” tonight. Her door was locked. I rattled the door and she opened it. And she looked up at me and said “MAMAAA, I’m not tired. Go Away.” Then she closed the door and re-locked it. 4 going on 14 030
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I have massive respect for parents who did road trips with little ones before PBS kids apps were available! #PBSkidsforthewin 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Watching the opening ceremony with Little Bit, as soon as Cupid comes on: “That’s a BEAUTIFUL FAIRY, She’s so pretty” Sorry Cupid, you’ve been downgraded from Demi-god to fairy. 010
Reposted by Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡Mithradates @mithradatesvi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Little Bit is obsessed with hedgehogs, so @macaronbaker.bsky.social decided to use her new 3D printer to print a hedgehog soap dispenser. Little Bit loves it so much she has declared it her new best friend. 141
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Unsung parenting milestone, “being able to entertain themselves for a hour” even if it’s just watching Bluey. It’s a major help this morning while she has a snow day but both @mithradatesvi.bsky.social and I have to still work from home. 020
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Listening to a classical music card on Little Bit’s music player, thinking this sounds so familiar so I looked it up. Jupiter by Holst. Huh never heard of it. In the “influences” section on Wiki, “has been an influence by bands and for film scores such as those for the Star Wars series” Oh! 010
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Lost one round of filament chicken, but won the second! #3Dprinting #filamentchicken 040
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026On Best Song for the Oscar’s, it’s going to be a tough call between Golden and I Lied To You from Sinners. I don’t know if they are judged on just the music, or if they take into consideration the movie and storytelling aspects of it. Because just music Golden has it, full movie Sinners wins. 110
Macaron Baker 🍪 🪡 @macaronbaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Why are all the cool crafting class only available to people who aren’t working regular hour jobs? Make your own leather purse at the local quite shop - Tuesday’s 2-6 PM Learn how to weave at the art community in town - Thursdays 9-11 AM I just want to do fun crafts! 130