Fat cats and rat tails! Where has the time gone? Thom and I have been together for almost 10 years and we have 4 wonderful, difficult, brilliant, beautiful, strong, and brave children. They are growing up so fast. I see changes, remarkable changes, each and every day.
"Are those your kids"? they ask at the grocery store.
Yes, these are MY children. They may not have grown in my womb or my partner's womb but they grew in my heart, in our hearts. And now they OWN our hearts, just like your biological children own yours.
This blog is for them, as a record of our lives and a record of their dad who writes it. This blog is for us, the 2 Way Gay Dads, least we forget, in our IMPENDING old age, the sheer bliss they brought to our lives. This blog is for all the same-sex parents so we are NOT invisible. Invisibility is bad for us, our kids, and society, just ask The Invisible Girl with laryngitis. This blog is for the rest of society so you can witness the changes, on a more personal level, when 2 Way people of any persuasion come together in love to raise... love. This blog is so you won't be afraid. Look at their Christmas (2009) faces. How can you be afraid?
Nice start to the new year. Look forward to reading more. BTW, not exactly related to this, but you may recall the scandal with the former Miss California. Along the same lines, check out Iris Robinson, wife of Ireland's first minister and a politician in her own right. She is 59 years old and very attractive for her age. Anyway, she made a bunch of homophobe comments, usual stuff about how it should be cured via prayer. Shortly after making these comments, she admitted to cheating on her husband of 40 years, with a 19 year old. It was a teenager whose father was a friend of hers and the father had just died, so you know, the young man needed comforting. And there was a financial scandal as part of the whole mess. So any day now, expect that she has checked into rehab, met with her spiritual adviser, and plans to run for public office.
ReplyDeleteAhhh... what a sweet Austin-American family :-)
ReplyDeleteLove the blog! And the picture! And the family! :)
ReplyDeleteWelcome to blogging R Michael. And thanks for this treasure.
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