Author Archive
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Two Things I Like and One Thing That Makes Me Mad
My Custom Story is a site where you can order totally customized photo board books. What a neat way to make sure our kids see positive images of their families from a very young age! It would be great if they had gay and lesbian families represented in their example books, but […]
6 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, The Good, The Ugly, The Political Is Personal by Art-Sweet
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Some Good News
As I’m catching up on blogs… (Who am I kidding? I’m never caught up) I thought I’d share a few pieces of happy news from the past month in the lesbianfamily blogosphere.
If you’re not on here and you should be, please comment, and I’ll update:
Arrivals:
The Muriels welcomed Charlotte Kathleen on September 26. Congratulations!
On the Way:
Thwarted Repeatedly […]
1 Comment » - Posted in News!!! by Art-Sweet
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Where’s Daddy?
Disturbing encounter #1: I am walking down our street in our new city, balancing a very cranky heavy little boy and pushing the container of flesh eating ants or so you’d think from his screams stroller with my remaining pinky finger. An older couple is leaving their house. I smile at them and say hi […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Adoption, The Political Is Personal by Art-Sweet
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Sometimes, I think it would be easier to be the Dad
I have a draft post that I started, oh a couple of weeks ago, called “Ten Things I Have Learned in the First Week Home with My Son.” A mix of the tender and the humorous, the pretty and the very very stinky.
Except that one of the things on that list is ArtSweet’s first […]
18 Comments » - Posted in The Political Is Personal, Parenting 202 by Art-Sweet
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Blogs Galore
I am not being a lazy blogger, because all this linking takes a ridiculous amount of time.
I have been trawling the lesbian internets for you all and am discovering all sorts of new blogs and blogs with exciting news to share. So check these folks out, and tell them that LF sent you!
And if […]
2 Comments » - Posted in site stuff by Art-Sweet
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Research Subjects Needed for Project on Same-Sex Adoption
This one came through my local queer parenting group…
Are you in a committed relationship?
Are you planning to adopt for the first time?
If so, we need your and your partner’s help!
The Transition to Adoptive Parenthood Project (TAPP) is aimed at exploring the transition to adoptive parenthood in same-sex parents. We are asking you to […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Adoption, News!!! by Art-Sweet
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
An Order of Retail Therapy with a Side of Frustration
I have been meaning to write a review of Peggy Drexler’s Raising Boys Without Men, but I never seem to have the time. So here’s some thoughts on a somewhat tangentially related topic…
In an ultimately futile attempt to distract myself from my most recent bout of adoption anxiety, I decided to go out and purchase the […]
15 Comments » - Posted in Adoption, The Political Is Personal, Parenting 202 by Art-Sweet
Monday, February 5th, 2007
I’m Curious
How do those of you who have two careers and babies/small children manage it?
This has been the subject of some recent heated discussion in the art-sweet/pili household and after trying to organize my thoughts on the issue into a coherent post far too many times, I’ve decided to wimp out throw the question out to […]
5 Comments » - Posted in site stuff, Weekend Reading, Parenting 202 by Art-Sweet
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Just what I need…
Another way to procrastinate.
I went through and did a bunch of housekeeping in the links department. Added some new ones, removed links to people whose sites no longer exist (is there anything more irritating than thinking you’re going to read a nice lesbian baby story and landing on a page full of flashing ads for […]
1 Comment » - Posted in site stuff by Art-Sweet
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Taxing Thoughts
On Tuesday, the office manager at my new job gave me a thick folder of forms to fill out.
License plate #? Crap, I can’t remember that. I had to get new plates when someone stole one of my plates, and I still haven’t learned the new number yet.
Code of ethics? Yes, I promise not to […]