Hug Everyone. Hell, Hug the Grocery Clerk

In the oddest twist of fate, a friend of ours fell off his horse on Saturday and is in a coma. It's not good. In fact, it's pretty very not good. On a scale of 3-15 on the Glasgow Coma Scale, he's a 4. Man, that even hurts to type...

Here is my shout-out to you to send positive vibes, prayer, good juju, whatever... please, please send them to Juan, Liz and their four children Juan, Ricky, Isabel and baby Juliana. That's right, I'm using real names. Use real prayers if you've got 'em.

"Hug everyone you love", Mrs. Grizwald told me tonight.

MASSIVE HUGS OUT TO YOU.

Work Life is an Enigma

...well, not really, but sort of.

Client meeting. Rush. Afterhours. Must.get.to.the.City. Thing 1 is on a playdate in whoop-whoop Evergreen. Thing 2 is at a playdate in Willow Glen. La Gringa went to pick up Thing 1 and, well, I thought she was going to pick them both up.

I am half-dressed, one eye make-uped, hair half up in rollers when it hits me: SHITMOTHERFUCKER.

I go running out the door, snap this photo in the car on my way to get Thing 2; got to love the empty car seat in the back.

I am not great at the work/life balance thing this week.

Family Day.. Every Day

There is very little in La Gringa and my life that screams, heck, whispers gay. I think both of us feel that there is no need for us, personally to be married, have rainbow anythings, go to marches or have the kids wear t-shirts that say, "I was hatched by two chicks." -- the lifestyle we have is just as suburban as can be. It's almost, well, boring.

That said, there is a reason we live such a free and peaceful life and it's because there are families out there blazing the trail for the life we are reaping now. The life that Thing 1 and Thing 2 have because of those who are out there pounding the pavement for same-sex families.

Today is same-sex Family Day for the blogging community. This entry this morning is to thank those out there working for extraordinary freedoms we have. We hope to do you proud by being boring, normal, suburban moms with a couple of well-reared, beautifully souled children.

-- Garza G.