You know you’re a blended family when….

S here, and tomorrow E has her sinus surgery. The general surgery instructions from the doctor’s office said that she should bring along an eyeglass case with her name on it. So I immediately started thinking, “E doesn’t have any cases with her name marked on them, but we’ve got a case that [...]

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Things our son has learned over the last year

(For those of you visiting us thanks to Mombian’s “Blogging for LGBT Families Day,” the quick back-story is that almost a year ago, E and her cat moved in with S and S’s preteen son M. It’s the first time M has ever had a second parent.)
In no particular order, here are the things [...]

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Third in the nation?

According to one chart I found online, our state ranks 3rd in terms of the percentage of the population that is gay or lesbian, at 5.7%. After our various adventures this weekend, I’m thinking we’ve got to be much higher than that.
M was off camping with Scouts, so E and I started our Saturday [...]

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Quiet Sunday afternoon

M went over to a neighbor’s house to play in the 8″ of new snow we got Sunday. E and I pondered how to spend the afternoon.
“Want to have sex?”
“Well, I was going to have peanuts. But–”
And just then we saw M come trotting back home from the neighbor’s house. So peanuts [...]

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Pictures of a move

Step 1: get rid of as much stuff as possible. Haul it all down to the curb the day before trash day. It may look like a really tacky yard sale, but when all the stuff is free and you post the address on Craigslist, people swarm by to take things. [...]

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Crunch time

S here. E has lined up movers for next Tuesday, so we’re into crunch time now for this whole shacking-up thing.
We spent last night knocking a few more items off the to-do list. We brought a cedar chest from my place over to a friend’s house, since she said she could use [...]

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Making it into *our* house, part 5

We’ve finally got a paint color for our bedroom that, even if it may not be quite what we’d envisioned (I now suspect the color we envisioned might not actually exist), is at least a color we can both be very happy with. The color we ended up with is what happens why you buy [...]

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Coming out to the neighbor kid, part 2

In our earlier post, we were pondering various ways for M to let his best friend, the girl across the street, know that E was moving in. Well, evidently we have gone with option 5, say nothing and wait for her to notice. Here’s how it played out.
The girl just got back from [...]

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It’s official — we’re engaged!

The story from S’s point-of-view:
About a month ago, M was off camping with Scouts for the weekend, and E and I went in to the city for the gay pride parade. After the parade ended, I suggested heading over to the greenway along the river for some peace and quiet and nice scenery. Little did [...]

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Coming out to the neighbor kid

S here again. M and I had a discussion this morning about how he will explain to his best friend, the girl across the street, that E is moving in. His buddy will be away from now until after the move-in actually happens, so regardless of what approach we use, she’ll find out [...]

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