32 posts tagged familias

No, it’s not a sign of panic (though that does reign, from time to time, in our humble abode), but a sign of solidarity with working people all over the world. And so I find myself compelled to post this topical little dittie, and postpone (or would it be “post-post”?) the previously promised dittie

Our Family Coalition, the Bay Area’s queer family organization, held its tenth annual LGBTQ Family Night at the Berkeley YMCA this past weekend. And I won’t be the only one to tell you that when they say in their notices about the event that “hordes” of LGBTQ parents and their children attend, they are not exaggerating.

Begs the question, doesn’t it. SINCE I NEVER WANTED TO BE A PRINCESS AT ALL. Now a Prince, we can talk. You’ll never guess which one of the above pictured items was checked out of the library when the lil’ monkey was there with Other People Who Shall Remain Nameless*, and which one was purchased in a compensatory fit by Baba.

Hair today, gone tomorrow 11 Comments Published March 26th, 2008 in Baba familias, Re: the lil' monkey, LLLDP The girlie must have been watching Britney Spears on YouTube behind my back. I give you Exhibit A, below, right: what the lil’ monkey hath wrought, aided and abetted by her artsy crafty scissors.

A little self-help reading 11 Comments Published March 12th, 2008 in Baba familias, Mostly a picture The book in which I’m groping around for a lifeline, above, is titled Your Three Year Old: FRIEND OR ENEMY (okay, emphasis mine; it’s not like they go all caps on it).

U R 2 Old, the lesfam version 8 Comments Published March 10th, 2008 in Baba familias Like me, many of you current and future parents perusing yesterday’s New York Times will have sucked up the article “Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)” with a mixture of fascination and dread. Laura M.

Yet another yummy lunch… 22 Comments Published March 6th, 2008 in Baba familias, Re: the lil' monkey …of which she’ll eat, like, ten percent. My money’s on the apple sauce, maybe a nibble of cheese (picture a “Honey I Shrunk the Mouse”–sized rodent), maybe part of one cracker, and if it’s a good day, she opened the carrot bag.

Paw madly in area below 9 Comments Published February 26th, 2008 in Baba familias, Re: the bairn Back when we had two dogs, and one of them was a manic, hypervigilant Australian Cattle dog-Shepherd mix and the other an impressionable lab mix, we saw a lot of action whenever someone approached the house.

A buddy in Canada sent a clipping from The Globe and Mail in which scientists have evidence that 10% of babies born are not the children of their mothers’ husbands. In other words, those wimmen be cheatin’! And, the interesting part, the husbands are financially responsible for those children even if DNA tests prove that they are not the fathers.

Something old 6 Comments Published February 12th, 2008 in Baba familias The “something old” pictured above: my dad’s hands, on his third grandchild, my daughter, when she was something quite new. Robin Reagler, who writes the blog The Other Mother, has a blogging party/carnival thing going on, in honor of Freedom to Marry Week, which is happening this week for the eleventh year.