Ocean Dreamer

Congrats to the folks at two of my favorite blogs on the birth of their babies: QueerBabyMaking‘s baby girl was born August 10th and Role Playing with Kids‘ twin boys (their second set!) were born August 2nd Hooray for new babies in the blogosphere.

Okay, so perhaps I had created a bubble of hallucination, as Sarah commented yesterday.  After my semi-confusing pregnancy test yesterday morning, I bought a set of 2 electric ones, so there would be less confusion.  I took one yesterday afternoon and it was negative – but, I thought, okay, maybe the HCG* hasn’t had time [...]

So today is 12 dpo* and I took a pregnancy test and – guess what – it has a *very* slight, so slight you almost can’t see it, second line.  The test and control lines are pink, and if the test line were any lighter, it seriously wouldn’t exist.  I’m posting a pic here, but [...]

I have begun to find other LGBTQ single parents (and prospective parents) by choice – first virtually and now in person – and that sense of community has been wonderful.  I started out feeling that there were very, very few of us in this subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup – and put a [...]

I have the oddest printer.  A few weeks ago it stopped working.  After consulting the troubleshooting guide and getting solutions like “plug in the printer” that were *not* helpful, I decided to just reinstall it.  That worked fine for about a week, and then it failed on me again.   Since I’ve had such a [...]

This blog for single queer parents by choice, written by Angela, is chronicling her journey to parenthood (she’s due in a few months – congratulations!)  Its also a great resource for anyone considering the path of single LGBTQ parenthood, as she does an excellent job of expressing many of the experiences and emotions of being [...]

Or so it seems. I am actively involved with Seattle’s group for queer folks who want to have kids, yet I’m the only one who’s single. Aside from this blog, I’ve only found three other blogs about single lesbian mama: “Adventures of a Single Lesbian Mom,” “Soul Bliss,” and “One Mommy … TTC.” Similarly, I’ve [...]