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!