exhausted success

After a week that contained 4 nights and 5 days of little brother-watching/playing, I'm spent.
The time I spend with the boys (6 and 8) is both exhilarating and exhausting. I love being a part of their lives and sharing my loves with them (easter egg dyeing and my night at the gallery), but most days it felt like I was spending all my time preparing meals, convincing them to eat the meals, or cleaning up the remains of our meals.
The highlight of our long weekend was definitely the night at the gallery. Hub kept them most of the night, although they did visit long enough to snap some pictures of the sculptures on display and to give their insights into the meaning or mood of a piece.
My spinning demonstration was quite a bit of fun, despite my feeling very self-conscious when onlookers stood too close and stared with glazed-over fascination at my hands and feet. One 6 year old boy was so enchanted, I offered him my seat and let him "peddle" while I fed the wool...not such a good idea, given he decided he would spin all of my wool. Another 30 minutes of me standing awkwardly while he "peddled" furiously as his grandparents looked on.
My Fiber Whimsies (above) were a hit, in theory (ie. no one bought any, but plenty gushed). It's still really weird to be in this space...techinicall a part of the art supply store, but in space identical to the gallery spaces...people mostly don't know what to make of it: is it art? do people knit with this? Why do you spend so much time making yarn to make...what do you make with all this?
I'm somewhat glad to be here, to raise the public's consciousness of fiber art, but at the same time, I'm sick of the questions! They didn't ask the guy (Hub's cousin, actually) who carved the vaguely penile statue (called: Innuendo) why he spent time on that, so what's with the double standard? I understand the confusion... people (especially in Appalachia, where fiber arts where prevelant in the home life of many) aren't used to thinking of fabric (woven, knit or crochet) as art, it's simply utility.