Stage Husband?

My wife oftentimes calls me a stage husband. So what is a stage husband? I believe its something equivalent to a Stage mom who actively pushes their child into the spotlight. So what do I do to deserve such a title. Oftentimes I come up with ideas for her baking, e.g. a cake of a mountain with a rock climbing cake topper, or a kokeshi doll cake, or something random like that. I also like to promote fun things that are going on at the cupcake shop she works at. The owner has been featured on 2 local television shows, USA Today(my wife has a little picture in there), and a little blurb in San Francisco magazine. So Im really proud of my wife for being part of such a creative and successful business. I don't know about being a "stage" husband though.

So this past weekend we had an incredible time hanging out with some cousins from LA. It was a very casual weekend with nothing really to do except for what we wanted. On Saturday we visited the Ferry Building in downtown SF, bought some fresh vegetables at the farmers market, had a nice japanese lunch, went shopping in Union Square, of course visited Borders Bookstore(no weekend is considered complete without this), had a hot chocolate in Union Square, and topped it off with a wonderful Sushi dinner.(I know, but we love Japanese food) It was fabulous.

But going back to my stage husband roots, to top off the Saturday evening, my wife and my cousin began a project to build a little tote bag. In a couple of hours they were able to design a tote, cut the fabric and sew together a little purse. My wife and my cousin are creative power houses. While the husband and myself relaxed at the apt, these two kept totally busy cutting and sewing (I was "sew" happy to see the high tech sewing machine we bought from my sister being used.) They ultimately created a cool little tote with an inner lining and a pocket for a cell phone. Pretty impressive.

In any case it was an awesome weekend. Shopping, sewing and cooking. Hmmmm, there's definitely something wrong with that. I mean it was a weekend filled with hiking, mountain biking, cigars, poker, and other more manly things like that. I'll have to do something about this.