Nominally, MacGregor and I are joint heads-of-household; on a practical level, our household makes major decisions by consensus, and do event planning following the organizational principles of a troupe of Old World monkeys: the leader is whomever jumps in front of the parade. Woe be unto you if you misjudge which way the parade is headed, for you will march alone!
Our children are also Clan. Are you wondering about how your children will "fit" in the SCA? Here's a note on that subject I wrote a couple of years back when my daughter was 7 1/2.
How many of those kids running around are Sharptooth? Our most recent addition arrived in October 2000. We've done our part to assure continuation of the SCA, with one baby every six months for several years! Right now, we have Ariana, Kindra the Brave (the World's Best Kid (TM)), Athena, Honor, Cynthia, Taylor Autumn, Isabella Dawn, Sasha Rose, and our first boy, Gabriel. (Feel for him, with all those older sisters).
Here's a picture of Kindra in her 1997 Halloween costume... she decided to be a Blackfoot Indian. If I never cut another piece of fringe (or at least not for a while) after this, that'll be okay.
With our Clan at events you'll sometimes find Brendan the Shameless (my own true love)as well as some good folk who are incipient clan members (right now, Bryhanna). Brendan likes our Clan because the wenches like him! If you're looking for us after dark, look for us at the bar of our favorite pub.
We are active in the Chirurgeonate, with 2 master chirurgeons and seven journeymen among our 13 members. I got my "racing stripes"on the last Friday of Pennsic XXVII. I was pleased speechless and scared sh... well, let's leave it at that. (That's Nu'm bint Baab standing beside me without her baldric; that's her baldric I'm wearing, much to my honor and delight.) Mym also got her stripes at that War, as did our favorite baroness, Johanna von Sudeborn. We also had lots of fun with woad... which MacGregor now tells me takes two laundry runs to get out of a washcloth.
One of our favorite activities at Pennsic and other events is combat shopping. Nothing beats the Merchants' Quarter at Pennsic and Estrella, but here are some on-line merchants for the off-season.