Comments on: LD is two

By: insertmetaphor

insertmetaphor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:09:59 +0000

This is the perfect opportunity to post my first comment. I love your blog - it’s one of the first that I open when I’m mining through 100 unread in my google reader. Your posts are always inspirational and so well crafted. I love the pictures and the stories. Thank you for putting so much of your life out for us to read.

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:29:41 +0000

Thanks for doing the survey. It’s been such a raging success I’m sure I’ll make it an annual blogiversary present to myself (and anyone else to whom the results would be of interest).

Now here is my prescription for keeping limbs in working order at a rugby field:

By: Vikki

Vikki — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:16:39 +0000

1)I completed the survey and 2)Wow…that picture makes me REALLY miss rugby. Seriously. If only I wasn’t so darn old…and hadn’t developed that pesky desire to have all my limbs in working order for as long as possible…

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:13:37 +0000

O could this be more thrilling I think not.
Livingstone, I presume? Etc.
Now what?
How do I put you two together? I know! ~~I’ll send you both your emails? Big thinker, me.~~

Later note: Small thinker, me. Or rather, hasty thinker, with a tired boy very audibly needing a nap, whilst gnawing on one of my typing fingers. I see now that the studly rugby role model just said she is still using her old college email “handle,” which of course is the very thing that tipped off the young rugby ward. And which, one surmises, the young rugby ward would be in possession of. A child of three could have seen all I needed to do was sit back and watch the magic happen. Problem is, the child of three I had to hand, who could have helped me, was demonstrating a need for anger management therapy at that selfsame moment. A backseat driver of any age could have seen that what I needed to be doing was paying closer attention to either or both of them, rather than moderating comments. Multitasking. Can’t be a good parent with it; can’t be a sane parent without it. A conundrum for the sages.

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:10:51 +0000

Are you kiddin’? Hi-jack away. What a thrill to be witness. Says the former jock, but nary quite jock enough to go the whole enchilada and like do RUGBY. Â¿Quien es mas macha? Not I!

Umph!

By: psledge

psledge — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:03:06 +0000

i am indeed piper from wes:) i still use the same old wesleyan email. get in touch! i’m honored you delurked to find me– and LD my apologies too for hijacking your comments.

By: Strauss

Strauss — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:41:50 +0000

psledge, are you piper from wes? I had to register and delurk just to find out. If so, I’d love to catch up again. I’m in NYC now, thinking about kids with my partner but knowing she needs to get through grad school and I law school before anything, really.
Sorry ldad for hijacking your comments, but if this is the person of whom I am thinking, then wow! Piper was my rugby captain/role model when I was a frosh in college, and I’ve wondered what ever happened post-graduation.

By: psledge

psledge — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:24:04 +0000

A lurker for months, I felt compelled to finally post a comment. My partner and I are expecting our first this summer and while she has books and magazines and family members galore giving her advice and recounting stories of their own pregnancies, I’m left somewhat in the dark. Not comfortable as a “mom” and not quite socially sanctioned to be a “dad,” there just wasn’t anyone around to tell me tales of their own adventures in my position. Finding this blog has provided me much needed guideposts as I begin my own journey to non-bio mom-hood. Thanks for sharing your life and thoughts with those of us just starting out, and of course Happy Birthday!

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:23:31 +0000

Wow. I feel like Wilbur the pig looking up at the word “Radiant,” just artfully spun by Charlotte. Speechless.

Also compelled to cough up some kinda cake, which the only kind I have on film is the following (a joint cake for the lil’ peanut and his grandma, with whom he celebrated this year):

Taken in the privacy (and mild flamability) of the kitchen pantry, before dramatically sailing out into the room of gasping family members.

Thank you so very much for such a thoughtful accounting. I will do my durndest to live up to it!

By: francesca

francesca — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:47:03 +0000

Uh-oh…the LD terrible twos are coming our way! What will the tantrums be about? One thing we know for sure: it will be a well-narrated and poignantly rendered rumination on the doldrums of asserting independence, finding some limits, and developing a little come-back (or three!). And besides, the speeded-up-timezone of Blogland might mean that two is the new sixteen!

Thank you, LesbianDad, and thank you to your family, for living with such thoughtfulness, taking the time to wrap it in beautiful language, and then the extra-extra effort to actually get it all down here for us - with regularity, good humour, an amazing attention to the local (and general), the personal (and political), the right now (and the long ago) — and then calling all of those silly categories into question themselves. Your words stay with us long after they roll of the front page, and I can honestly say you have entered into our conversations of family- and baby-making more than a few times. You don’t know me from Eve (I’m not that worried about Adam), but your project here escapes its own confines on a regular basis. That’s community-making at its best, and this little place of yours is just getting its party started.

Now, where is the cake? And ice cream?