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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Good morning, Irene!
Whether or not your local weather patterns agree, it’s coming on Spring, as the Vernal Equinox, Purim, and Easter will be only too glad to tell you. A whistle-stop Google tour tells me that it was Eirene (or Irene) who was the Greek goddess of peace and the season of spring (shown at right […]
4 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, site stuff by Polly
Monday, March 17th, 2008
A little housekeeping
Nearly A dozen new listings have been added to the blogs here at Lesbian Family. Many are gals Trying to Conceive; one’s a move from Trying to Expecting (yay!), another from Expecting to Babies! (yay!). Plus we have several more new baby blogs, and one about both little and big kids.
New […]
7 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, site stuff by Polly
Monday, March 10th, 2008
U R 2 Old, the lesfam version
[Note (A): This dittie is cross-posted at LesbianDad. Note (B): A thousand apologies, Lesbian Family readers, for the EPIC HIATUS we’ve all taken from posting here! The dozen or so folks who’ve written in with blogs to be added to the LF blog listings will see action soon! And thanks for continuing […]
No Comments » - Posted in site stuff, Parenting 202 by Polly
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Some queerspawn reading lists
[Crross-posted over at LesbianDad.]
During Banned Books Week, we all get to reflect on the life-saving quality of the books in our lives (Liza did here earlier in the week, and so did I). Continuing the celebration, I wanted to collect in one post a bunch of useful book-ish resources for youse LGBT […]
No Comments » - Posted in Babies, Teens, Tweens, Toddlers by Polly
Friday, September 7th, 2007
A little help?
[A version of this is cross-posted over at LesbianDad.]
I was writing an epic-length response to a great question someone asked on my blog, and realized that I had better give it a whole different lease on life as a post, the better to tempt more of you astute readers to add to my answer. […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Parenting 202, Toddlers by Polly
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 […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Non-Bio Mom, Parenting 202, Toddlers by Polly
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
It’s all relatives
Many of you will have read Peggy Orenstein’s cover piece in this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, “Your Gamete, Myself.” For those who didn’t, or who just now linked to it and balked when you saw that it spans nine pages online, here’s a synopsis: Orenstein, an astute writer on matters feminist and maternal, […]
2 Comments » - Posted in BioMom, Non-Bio Mom, The Political Is Personal by Polly
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
It’s a Cheney!
Eeek! What’s wrong with this picture? Right! No parents!
More on the the Mary n’ Heather baby news, along with the ACTUAL official White House photo of the proud kin, from Pam Spaulding at the Blend and her berth at Pandagon. The Family Pride Blog has a piece on […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Babies, News!!!, The Political Is Personal by Polly
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Known donor bonuses
[A shorter version of this piece is cross-posted over at LesbianDad.]
It was bedtime, and I thought I was going to have to mount a lengthy campaign to extirpate the lil’ monkey from her downstairs cousins’ room (we live upstairs from my partner’s brother and his family). Daily she ransacks her cousins’ bedroom in a never-sated […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Known Donor, Non-Bio Mom, Extended Family by Polly
Friday, April 20th, 2007
Don’t know nothin’ ’bout biology
Okay so the fifties doo-wop tune actually said “geography,” rather than “biology.” But it gets us started. Today I wanted to draw your attention to a great, pithy post by Trista, one of the contributors to this forum. Her piece, Advice to Bio Moms, is a great catalyst for thought about how […]