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Friend, sister, mother’s partner, mother, and sister-in-law all send their love, 8/04.

[Cross-posted at the Family Pride Blog.]
Your Gamete, Myself
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 […]

“I’m walkin’ on my shadow, I’m walkin’ on my shadow,” says the lil’ monkey whenever the sun shines from a fortuitous direction. This time we had fun making letters of the alphabet with our bodies.
If parenthood all goes downhill from this point onward, I wouldn’t be surprised, since I can’t imagine much […]

It was a jam-packed and fun-filled weekend. On Saturday the beloved and I celebrated Ten Years of Commitment with an all-day, kid-filled party, complete with revised! and updated! vows. I’m not sure what got me more misty-eyed: hearing what my life’s love had to say to me before a clutch of our dearest […]

After the party, Berkeley, CA.

We met a handful of great women through our (lesbo) childbirth education class. Like many such groups, ours stuck together post-birth, and we’ve cohered for over two years as a tight-knit clot of parents that has met, with few exceptions, every month.

Our kids are all relaxed buddies, and as planned, they now […]

Lil’ Monkey: There’s a funny thing about apples.
Baba: Oh yeah? Tell me about it.
LM: The skin gets in my teeth: that’s the one thing. And the other thing is the funniest thing, is it makes a crunchy sound. “Kcchk.” Like that. That’s the funniest thing.
I think it’s the funny thing […]

“Face decoration” lesson, Berkeley, CA.