Here’s a purely entertaining Friday afternoon video for you. Below Oprah Winfrey listens to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka talk parenting roles and challenges during their twins’ first year. (Advert comes first.) This clip starts out with Oprah asking, “Is one of you more maternal?” Hint: not NPH! How many of you agree with [...]
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TGIF Video: NPH, David Burtka, and Oprah
Here’s a purely entertaining Friday afternoon video for you. Below Oprah Winfrey listens to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka ...
The Mixed Blessing Of A Quick Birth
I have been blessed with two beautiful, healthy, uncomplicated births. I feel very lucky and am very grateful for this. These births were also quite quick. The first was just under four hours and the second was just under two hours. And these times are from start to finish – from fast asleep in my bed with no concrete [...]
Summer Lovin’
Summer is upon us! And I am so happy for its mounting. I have been waiting for summer to mount me since Hurricane Sandy hit at the end of October and kicked off a very, very long winter. We have gone through an entire cord and a half of wood, half of which we used [...]
Legally Wedded
Jen Bauer, who blogs at Adventurous Moms, files the ninth in our Lawfully Wedded Life series. She lives in Massachusetts, and thus has a number of years’ experience with lawfully wedded (lesbian) life. But she and her wife chose, after a Massachusetts marriage, to have a South Carolina wedding. Read on to learn why, and what it all [...]
Swing Batter Batter
When we arrived home from school today, my daughter took her lunch box to the kitchen and then wandered into the living room and asked me for a hug. I gave her a big squeeze and rubbed her back and she said, “I needed that after what happened at school.” I hate any references to [...]
Blogging for LGBT Families Day is Coming!
If you’ve been reading around the LGBT family blogosphere, you’re likely to have heard about Dana Rudolph’s Blogging for LBGT Families Day, something she’s hosted at Mombian for the past eight years. Many of you who blog already contribute; many of us who contribute here at Lesbian Family have logged a Blogging for LGBT Families [...]
Albania’s 2nd Gay Ride Against Homophobia
I grew up in the US as a child of the 1980s and 90s. I was born after Stonewall but before marriage equality in any state. I am part of the in-between generation. The one that didn’t live the acute violence but still didn’t have Gay-Straight Alliances at school or LGBT role models on TV. I have [...]
Highest Percentage of LGBT Families in Marriage Ban States
LGBT America is a nation starkly divided between relatively “high equality” states and “low equality” states, as the map to the right shows (dark green = relatively “high” equality; white = “low”; “medium” equality states, just two or three, are tan). And it isn’t news – or shouldn’t be – that the states with the [...]
Dealing with the News
By the time you read this, I’m certain you’ll have heard about what happened in Oklahoma. This is the part where I’d likely link you to a news article, or maybe some video. But not right now. I haven’t read any of them. I haven’t watched anything. I can’t – I simply can’t do it. [...]
Tragedies in the News: A Resouce List for Parents
First published April 16, following the Boston marathon bombing. Republishing this in the wake now of the Oklahoma tornado today, and with our hearts with all those affected. ~ Polly. __________ Each time any violence and tragedy dominates our hearts and minds, we’re rightly concerned that it may penetrate to our kids, with or without [...]
In The Weeds
Today is the last day that I will be the mama of two kids under three. Leo turns three tomorrow and I’m flooded with feelings of happiness, pride, sadness and relief. Mostly, I’m just glad we survived this year. (Please keep any “If you think two was hard, just wait until three!” comments to yourself.) [...]
ICYMI: 12 May to 18 May 2013
This past week was a big one for us at Lesbian Family: we watched in amazement as Minnesota became the 12th state to pass marriage equality. (One of us, Vikki, moved there right after college, and has rooted her life and family there for over 20 years; another of us, Polly, met the mother [...]
Featured Family Portraits
From Philadelphia to Atlanta to California, lesbian families are everywhere! Our first family is Alex, Jamie and their six year old Izzy. They live in Willow Glen, California. Thank you for sharing your beautiful family with us! Our second family this week is expecting their first baby! How exciting! Mercedes and Ashley are [...]
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