March Comes In Like a Lion, chapters 22 and 23🤒🙀 (Volume 3)

[Wildjinjer]

Hello!

This is part of a book club reading March Comes in Like a Lion. If you stumbled across this post, we’d love for you to join us-- get started on the Main Page, which has links to a preview, plus discussions and vocabulary sheets for the first 2 volumes (now filled!), as well as a Reading Schedule for Volume 3.

Please share your comments, questions or answers whether it’s about grammar, culture or cats.

Here’s the New Vocabulary Sheet.

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[Wildjinjer]

Does anyone know what 美咲ばちゃんmeans by マメ here?

[Redglare]

I think it is meaning nr. 1 here:

So the aunt is complimenting Akari for making the fancy bentou osechi.