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Mon 24 Nov 2008

Boo!

Posted by Polly under site stuff
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Aaak! Last time I posted here was August 5th, well over three months ago. Back then,

The economy hadn’t gone to h-e-double toothpicks in a handbasket.
The anti-gay marriage and anti-gay foster adoption initiative battles hadn’t heated up to the roiling boil that totally cooked those of us in the affected states (and beyond).
The U.S. of A. hadn’t elected its first Black intellectual president in a victory that made people weep with gratitude and relief world-wide.
The anti-anti-gay backlash hadn’t lashed back, following the resounding anti-gay vote in that historic, spirit-lifting election.

Obviously, I myself have been entangled in all of the above, and let an egregious amount of time slide since my most recent periodic check-in here. Being parboiled by the Yes on 8 campaign sucked all the spirit out of me (new vocabulary word: “minority stress”!), and all’s I had left, after trying to defeat the rollback of CA same-sex civil rights, I gave to my family (1) and thereafter to my work (2) and my own blog (3).

What’s been collecting over here at LesbianFamily.org inbox lo these months? Well, glad you asked! Some 86 bits of spam that escaped the spam-ulator, and dozens upon dozens of requests to be listed in the LF rolls, dating back to… could it really be late June? Yegods I think so.

This here shout out (with blueberry-enhanced visual accompaniment, for no particular reason but it seemed to be an effective attention-getter) is to say that over the course of the next coupla weeks I intend to list up those of you who long ago sent in requests to have your blog listed. If anyone has changed status — birthed or brought your kid home? stopped TTC? changed URLs on your blog? WENT STRAIGHT, HEAVEN FORFEND?! — do tell, and I’ll readjust your initial request accordingly.

Meanwhile, thanks for still checking in here.

Fri 12 Sep 2008

Bi-weekly question: Advice to my old self

Posted by Liza under Biweekly Question
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Thank you to everyone who responded to the last questions. Since, again, this is a great place to learn from one another, this post’s question is:

If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself (and/or your partner) upon starting your journey to have a child? Please answer reguardless of whether your journey was via TTC or adoption or other.

Sun 31 Aug 2008

More blogs in Español

Posted by Clare under Babies, Little Kids, Big Kids, BioMom, Adoption, Expecting, Global Families, Español
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Here are some new (or better said, just found blogs):

Mamas Lesbianas a partir de los 42 años: about a couple and their adopted daughter

Adopcion nacional: about two able-bodied adult white women in Spain who have one daughter with a disability adopted internationally and who are trying to adopt a second child with a handicap through national (Spain) adoption

Una Familia Especial: family with two adolescents in Mexico

Círculo de Familias Diversas: Blog for LGBT families in Mexico City

Dos lesbianas, nueve meses y una nueva vida: who are pregnant

Dos mujeres, un niño y lo que venga: Spain with small child

El blog de Luli: Luli (who is tiny and beautiful) and her mothers blog

En busca de lo naranja y verde: Two moms and a little boy in Barcelona

La suma de nosotras: Expecting in Spain

Mami x opcion: Lesbian mom by choice of a 3 month old

Mamás lesbianas y bebé: In madrid with a newborn

Matriz: Moms with a 4 year old

Milu, Nunu y un hada: Moms with a young child

Welcome to all the new blogs!!!

***Polly, can you help me get these into the blogrolls??? I don’t know how and I don’t want to bother Liza as she just had her beautiful baby girl Josephine Rose!!!!***

Thu 21 Aug 2008

Biweekly question: LGBT friendly books?

Posted by Clare under Weekend Reading, Biweekly Question
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I have to fess up that I have been miserable at trying to contribute to this site. Perhaps I could blame stressful job and stressful change of job and, most recently, unemployment (okay, admittedly, I do not have the stresses that many of you do while unemployed, so I will not complain). Perhaps I could blame the fact that I simply have not found more lesbian mom sites in other languages that most of you can’t read. Perhaps I can blame the fact that I haven’t gotten to many lesbian mom related questions from Hispanic women recently– I think that Julieta has long since taken over the category of go-to-person. That said, I won’t. I will just say I have been lazy and not sure what to write about. That, however, is coming to an end.

Since I still don’t know what to write about I thought of Liza’s suggestions post Blogher 2007. On my own blog I have had some success with weekly and biweekly features like weekly picture or posting as part of a topic community. Also, I was thinking that interaction is part of what makes LesbianFamily such a great site. Therefore, I am going to do I pilot run of a project I call “biweekly question”. This will be my space to pose a question for you, the esteemed reader who knows much more than I, to answer. (Keep in mind, if no one answers this will not work and I will dejectedly go back to writing on my blog– Is that a guilt trip or what?) To tag along with Mombian’s recent question about LGBT Children’s books in Spanish, I thought the first question should be:

What is your child’s/ or your favorite LGBT friendly book and why?

Feel free to answer either 1) in the comments or 2) on your own blog and then put a link to it in the comments. Thanks everybody!

Tue 5 Aug 2008

At long last! Our new listings since, oh, June

Posted by Polly under News!!!, site stuff
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Ahoy, and apologies! An egregious gap has yawned between the last update and this one, explained only by the same old same old: too many kidcare duties, not enough time to spread around. Which lament many of you either know first-hand, or are working hard so’s to know before too long.

A bunch of new listings have been queueing up since mid-June. In a LesFam first, three TTC blogs dropped off the radar in the month it took me to get around to posting them here. Two others, alas, asked to be listed and didn’t include their URLs; I hope to be able to list them soon, once I track them down.

Per recent trends here at LesFam, nealy half the new listings this month are TTC (or Trying To Conceive) blogs. They’re joined by a good smattering of blogs from parents of older kids.

Among the TTC folk, we have:

Patiently Awaiting Hope: Gia is “Taking this journey on faith and where every step brings ‘Hope’”
Twin Cycles: the account of Kia’s TTC journey alongside her sweetie Gia — yes, that Gia, of Patiently Awaiting Hope
two older hippos wanting a baby hippo: a 38 year old trying to conceive her first child with the love of her life
Wishinghopingpraying: “just your average nice, Jewish lesbians TTC baby #1. ‘Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see’ Hebrews 1:1″

At 2 moms and a pregnancy, MT is chronicling her pregnancy with her partner of six years.

The author of Luca Has 2 Mommies is both pregnant with twins and raising a toddler. (Yow!)

Emerging Butterfly is chronicling “One Woman’s Journey From Insecure Heterosexual Houswife to Confident Lesbian Mother.”

In Sweetest of Things, mtnhighmama, a single quee mama, foster mom, and surrogate mom, writes as about the good life in the Pacific Northwest.

At Come What May, Tyffany writes of her life in Colorado, her 13 year-old interracial relationship, and her 10 year-old twins.

And finally, Kat, at a mom’s struggle with identity, writes of her coming out process, after five kids: “this blog is about me, my identity, my visibility, my concerns and questions and random thoughts that make no sense. I hope it grows into a blog that explores a new love, a new relationship and the ups and downs that brings along with it.”
Welcome, all you gals! LesFam readers, go visit them and tell ‘em we (finally!) sent you! The blogs will show up in their various lists over the next couple of days.

Sun 27 Jul 2008

Watch this space for actual news, soon!

Posted by Polly under News!!!, site stuff
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Ha! Thought we’d all wandered off for good, huh? Well pert’ near. Pride month is one thing; I can imagine taking that one off, like the French take August. In a belated nod to that celebration, we have the image at right: “Party A” and “Party B” at San Francisco’s Pride celebration practically a month ago. (”Party A” and “Party B” have replaced “bride” and “groom” on marriage licenses as of June 17.)

But July turned out to be busier than expected around our household. On the short end of the stick: an accumulation of folks wanting to be added to the ever-growing LesFam rolls. Because the neglect is weighing heavily upon me, I’ve had to at least post this wee note pledging that before we ~~see~~ get a full week into August, a fresh update will be appear here. We have ~~over~~ nearly a dozen new folks, whom I can’t wait to introduce you to. So long as they’re still lesbians, and still in or trying to get in the family way. A lot can happen in a month or two.

Mon 2 Jun 2008

Happy Blogging for LGBT Families Day!

Posted by Polly under News!!!, The Good
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Dana over at Mombian is running her fabulous queer family fun-fest for the third year in a row today. Go check out the list of contributed posts, which will be added to on a rolling basis throughout the day. A great many of the Lesbian Family-listed blogs have posted something on the occasion. Here’s mine, for fun. And Liza, LesbianFamily.org founder, posted this.

If you’ve listed your blog here, and would like readers to see your Blogging for LGBT Families Day post, do let us know in the comments below!

Thu 22 May 2008

Blog listings since like a month ago

Posted by Polly under News!!!, site stuff
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Ahoy, sisters!

Pour yourselves a cup of your favorite hot (or cold) beverage, pull up a laptop (or a monitor), make sure someone’s got your back (or butt) covered for the next couple of minutes, and get ready to meet a bunch of new friends.

It’s been an entire month since I’ve been able to post an update here, for which I apologize. Not like I was just watching old Julie Andrews movie clips on YouTube. It has been a busy month, during which time I’ve managed to change well over a hundred diapers, clean up quarts and quarts of schmutz and detritus from the floor around where my kids eat, all the while still clocking a sufficient number of billable hours at my other day job that we can keep feeding our kids tuna instead of cat food. Ah, but enough about me! What do you think of my kids?

Alright, plenty of other momentious things have happened in the intervening month. In my home state, all the lesbian people (and their friends) can think to talk about is the state Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Hot on the heels of the elation around that ruling came sober preparations for what’s going to shape up to be a protracted, pitched battle to preserve that ruling from the very well-funded professional homophobes. The word is: support Equality for All in their feverish work to preserve the court’s decision and defeat the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative that voters will be considering in this November’s election (click on the “Donate” link at the upper right).

Now then. Let’s get down to the business of meeting Erin, Julie, Megin, Kelly, Meghan, Erica, Claire, Rachel, Debra, and Sally, and their various significant others, small and large. You’ll also want to know why you should drop by and visit Rachel’s place with a virtual casserole and an offer to do the dishes and a load of laundry.

Yes! You guessed it! Someone popped! RaJen Creation created! And now they have RaJenBabies! Two of ‘em! Many congratulations to you gals, and may you sleep at some point between now and 2009. They can now be found in Babies! and Multiples.

New TTC blogs joining the LF listings this past month are:

Ocean Dreamer, a single Seattle dyke exploring parenting, dog training, being gluten free, and more.
Ladies in Waiting, Mo and Meg. Meg will be sharing thoughts on pregnancy, kids, and becoming grown-ups.
My Pen Ran Out is inked (virtually) by a 33 year old lesbian living in London with her wife and three cats; they’re trying for a baby and she’s sharing the journey.
Finally, The Portable Pod, a TTC listing, has portable’d itself to Hatchling, where their TTC journey continues.

Several new Little Kids and Babies! blogs have been listed, too:

Labels are for Jars is writing about her journey raising a boy who is, as she writes in today’s post, Both/And. Please read it to find out what she means, and also to help lend your voices of wisdom and support.
Erica, in Parenting Beyond the Pale, is writing her reflections on lesbian parenting, Jewish preschool, public breastfeeding, and more.
Mama’s so mindful… or tryin’ to be! is an “attachment-oriented green crunchy granola stay at home lesbian mother of two amazing kiddos.”
The Mama Too and Team Serrins/Springfield blog about their lives with their kids, and can be found in in both the Little Kids and the Babies! listings, since they have one of each. And since one of ‘em also writes from and of her perspective as the social (as vs. biological) parent, you can also find her (The Mama Too) in the Non-bio section as well.

Finally, Lesbian Mommy is now among the Resources, and The Lesbian Lifestyle is now a Friend of the Family.

A big, ole LesbianFamily welcome to you, all!

Tue 22 Apr 2008

LF blog listings updates for the week of April 14

Posted by Polly under News!!!, site stuff
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Since you all keep growing here, as a community, and/or your evolving family-making and -raising stories migrate your blogs from one “category” to another, I’m thinking this simple update will be a regular feature. So long as the wee chunk of time it takes continues to make itself accessible.

Also, since no one called out “No, no, a thousand times no! Don’t alphabetize the listings!” I’m going to just slowly alphabetize them. And I’ll notate the freshest batch of listings on any given page with a Recently added! jobbie. Since that was the benefit of the non-alphabetized list: E-Z access to recent additions.

Speaking of which! New to LesbianFamily listings this past week are:

Specific Destiny just started their conception journey, and has joined the prodigious LesFam TTC ranks.

And Ramblings of the Other Mother writes about raising her and her partner’s Big Kid, as they all ~~anticipate the any-day-now~~ celebrate the birth of their new baby. You can also find Ramblings in Expecting (but not for long!), and Non-Bio.

Welcome to you both! And readers, do drop in, and tell ‘em LesFam sent you. Changes in status this past week:

The Chronicles of Conception is now chronicling gestation! So they can be found in Expecting, rather than TTC.

And moving right along, Possible Maybe is now talkin’ Babies!, and so will no longer be found amongst those Expecting.

Congrats all around!

Mon 21 Apr 2008

Our comments feature is in the shop fixed!

Posted by Polly under News!!!, site stuff
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…consequently, your Monday changelog is ~~on hold~~ coming up soon. Several blogs joined the fold before the comments feature on LesbianFamily went dark (or A.W.O.L., or on an unscheduled break, or on a walkabout, wherever they are). Unfortunately, it was their chronological order in the “Moderated comments” queue that helped us identify them. And now they’re ~~all off wherever the comments feature is. Hopefully behaving themselves.~~ recovered.

Sorry for the extended inconvenience! We ~~hope to begin to be able to hear from you again~~ look forward to hearing from you ~~soon~~ now.

Boo!

Bi-weekly question: Advice to my old self

More blogs in Español

Biweekly question: LGBT friendly books?

At long last! Our new listings since, oh, June

Watch this space for actual news, soon!

Happy Blogging for LGBT Families Day!

Blog listings since like a month ago

LF blog listings updates for the week of April 14

Our comments feature is in the shop fixed!

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