We marched in the rally on the 14th, I hope everybody did on behalf of all gay families.
It was actually very convenient for us. Kristin's ballet class is right across the street from city hall. She got out of class at 10:45 and the protests started at 10:30. Toney went to the protest and Kristin and I just crossed the street to join him 15 minutes later. We marched down the street waving our signs and went by the farmers market and to the Steinbeck Center and then back to city hall.
The night before, we explained to Kristin what a rally was, and gave her an idea of what the whole issue was about. She knows now that not everybody accepts diverse families. She took a piece of paper that night and put her whole name on it, and made a rainbow blob. (She just likes rainbows, it's a coincidence, we haven't told her of it's significance to the gay community). She walked around waving the sign saying "No on 8, Stop the Hate, Arack Obama!"
We were on the local news during the rally, on CBS and Fox, although we were in the background and didn't speak.
It made us realize how out of touch we are with our community and how we'd like to change that.
I'd like to purchase a domain name for my blog and update it with some better blogging software, I don't know which is the best, but it seems that when I search via labels with this one (for recipes), it doesn't return complete results. So there seems to be some glitches. I created this blog so people could get to know this gay family and hopefully not discriminate against gay families anymore. But as Kristin got older, my blogging died down, and while I don't think the blame certainly falls on me for that, this last election made me realize I need to step it up and get back into the blogging game. My problem is lack of direction. We're a really boring family and there isn't much to write about daily. Maybe I should get back into recipes and we can become the Food Network type of gay dads or something. If you look at my blogroll, everybody has a niche. The book dads, the traveling dads, the dads of fully grown children, the dads going through adoptions, the activist moms, the foster moms, small town life moms. We're just kind of the homebodies with nothing to say. Kristin started ballet and after one class, she wants to drop out. It's too much effort for her. Stretching is like more homework she complains. We paid for it, so she's not dropping out for awhile, but it gives you a good idea of how she wants to spend her time.
Somehow I think blogging as the most boring family isn't the way to go.
4 comments:
Hey Steve! Who says you need a niche? How fun will it be to look back even just a year from now to see what you were doing when Kristin was 6. I tried this: http://www.nablopomo.com/ They usually have some kind of theme, but they didn't this month. Although sometimes it's hard to come up with something to write about, seems there was something notable everyday this month. LOL! At least for me. Probably boring for my readers, but I'll enjoy going back to read it and saying to myself, "Oh I remember that."
I'll keep reading your blog whatever you write.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope it's a tasteful one.
Congrats on the marriage. Sorry about Prop 8.
we took our blog off private for the same reasons.
hmm, I've had much the same thoughts. When there is some event it certainly makes the point 'o the blog.
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