Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Lose some, winsome
[Cross-posted over at LesbianDad.] “Let’s play ‘Family,’” says the lil’ monkey this afternoon. How can I say no? Also, how can I not use it as yet another opportunity to massage the concept, yet again? In situ? Under the guise of her initiative? “When you play ‘Family,’ who is it that’s in the family?” I [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Non-Bio Mom,Parenting 202,Toddlers by Polly
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Picture of the Week, 8/30
Seriously? This may be my favorite picture in the whole LesbianFamily.org album. And there are some great pictures there. We would love to include yours!
5 Comments » - Posted in Expecting,Extended Family,Picture of the Week by Liza
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Way to go Maine!!
Lesbian Couple Victorious in Court : Earlier today the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a lesbian couple should be able to adopt two siblings. From an email from Equality Maine’s executive Director, Betsy Smith: “As many of you know, today’s ruling marks the first time in Maine history that a same-sex couple can jointly adopt a [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Adoption,News!!!,The Political Is Personal by J
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The “bloggeras”: Lesbian Family with a latin twist
(En español abajo) So, I wanted to have some great post for my first post since joining the team (guest post aside). So I started thinking about what I could talk about—after all, I neither currently have children nor am I in the process of making them or planning them. What exactly do I have [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Español,Global Families by Clare
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Familia Lesbiana– Blogs en Español
This is what I hope will be the start of a list of blogs in Spanish by and about lesbian families. If anyone knows anyone else, please send them this way. Without further ado, I give you: Julieta and her less-than-legal wife who are still in the planning stages over at http://willowsbrain.blogspot.com/. Magui, Gabi, a [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Adoption,Babies,Big Kids,Español,Expecting,Global Families,News!!!,Non-Bio Mom,The Political Is Personal,Toddlers,TTC,We're a Family! (Just the 2 of us) by Clare
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Greetings!
Hello! Thanks to all who welcomed me in Liza’s post and greetings to our Lesbian Family readers. This will be in the way of an introductory post, we’ll get to the nitty gritty stuff in a week or two. I am very glad to be here and writing – first off though lets get one [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Parenting 202 by Jenny
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
8% of BabyTalk Readers are Lesbian Moms!
Remember back when Babytalk ran a survey on “Married vs Single Moms?” I got a little cranky about it, to put it mildly. And while Babytalk didn’t call me, they heard from enough lesbian moms that we’re certainly included in the article. And apparently, there are a lot of us! Of their 14,000 “nationally representative” [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Babies,Friends of the Family (Supportive Hetero),The Good,The Political Is Personal by Liza
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Picture of the Week, 8/23
3 Comments » - Posted in News!!!,Picture of the Week,Toddlers by Liza
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Welcome
I’m very excited to announce that we have two new writers joining the team here at LesbianFamily.org! Clare, of Clare Says, who will be primarily writing about lesbians and lesbian families around the world, and Jenny, of Probably Boring Ramblings, who will be focused on child development. (And probably fetal development too, as she’s expecting!) [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in site stuff by Liza
Monday, August 20th, 2007
Making Sense of the Money to Make a Baby
Please welcome guest blogger Nina, from Queercents! “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana We’ll blink and find ourselves at the two year mark. Two years of trying. Time is one way we mark this baby-making business. When asked for an update, my partner, Jeanine typically rattles off the number of months [...]
