Technical Difficulties

Hmmm.  I’m stuck.
I’m stuck on two issues.
Issue number 1:  The term “non-bio lesbian mom” kinda sucks.  Am I right? First of all, who wants to be a “non” anything in regards to parenting?  It is too long.  (Not unlike many other gay or feminist terms.) And it is not– ugh.  It just fits like an [...]

Finally Human. (Both of Us)

Signs that I have morphed from a useless lump back into at least half the woman I used to be:
1. Yesterday I did my son’s laundry.
2. Yesterday I cooked a new and delicious dinner. .. tomato braised beans and polenta.  Yum.
3. Yesterday I organized all of our crazy recipes into a binder.
4. Last night I [...]

I Told Them

I just decided to tell them today.  A kid I don’t know walked up to me in the hall and asked me if I was having a baby.  So I figured I should tell my kids.  I told them when they were lined up to leave at 3 pm on a Friday.  I just said, [...]

I Don’t Eat Babies

Sooooo…
Now that I’m all knocked up and starting to show and whatnot, my kids have been asking me questions.   One asked me yesterday while we were walking down the stairs, “Do you have a baby in your stomach?”  To which I lamely replied, “I don’t eat babies!”
The truth is, I’ve never really come out [...]

Six Things

I don’t do memes very often. They kind of make me happy and I don’t know why. Perhaps it is because it is fun to get tagged. Like, I wasn’t actually the last one picked in gym class this one time. Thanks, Oh Chicken!
The Rules:
1) Link to the person that tagged [...]

Today…

I got my baby bump.
It just showed up.  People patted it.
My bump. My bump my bump my bump…
my little baby bump.

Weird Pregnancy Things

It is a list:
1. My hair is falling out.  I normally have very thick, wavy red hair.  Now I have flat red hair.  (The plus here, is that bangs never work for me, since my hair frizzes out.  I’m thinking of trying them now.)
2. I’m eating for two.  So, since I just finished my unprecedented [...]

Now I gotta…

The hands-down best service atrocity I ever witnessed was in a department store in a Brooklyn mall.  The teen-aged sales person in the store was not happy to have a job, I guess, because when a woman about three feet away asked her a question about the price of a sweater, the put-out young lass [...]

Which Hotel? Which Midwife?

Update:
First of all, I think I was a little unfair to Motel 6.  I was going based on one review, but the towel thing is just gross.  Anyway,  lots of other people happily delivered and recovered there.
Next, I spoke with moneylady at ABC midwifery again.  She thinks that with my insurance combined with A’s we [...]

Midwife Gold, You’re My Only Hope….

So, I was just mulling over how I was going to pay the $3,621 difference between what my insurance will pay and what the fee is for my beloved midwife, when I came home to a stack, nay a heap… a mound if you will, of bills.  Fifteen bills for $120 each from my RE, [...]