Talk about being blessed, big time. I have a front row seat at a miracle. The miracle is my beautiful, powerful daughter and her partner and their brand new baby daughter, starting out their lives together now, as a Rainbow Family.
Never was a baby born who was wanted more than this one or for as long: it was now or never for my 40 yr old child. who has lived her life as an out and proud lesbian, in a world she has created for herself that is packed with good friends (both gay and straight) in a strong and vibrant urban gay community. She already has created the “village” it takes, to help raise her child.
These two women are SO in love with this little one, it is palpable. You can actually feel it in the air, and see the glow they create when together. Nobody who values their lives better ever try to tell me this child will “suffer: from being born to a lesbian couple!
The birthing experience, (two months early, emergency C section), was all good, even though some hospital personal were a bit disconcerted by having :the father” be another woman, but overall, a totally positive experience for everyone, and that also blew me away, and gave me so much hope for the future.
Yes, they have to spend lots of money and jump through legal hoops no straight couple who wants a child ever has to, but in spite of those injustices, they will do whatever they have to do to make her foundations strong and lasting and legal.
And yes, my granddaughter will face some bumps along the way, for being a kid with two Mommies, but with the back up she has, she’ll be fine, and more than up to it.
For me, all of this is a miracle I never could have ever dreamed of back when I was young and proper married woman with two kids by the time I was 22,(because..that’s just what was done back then in that world, where no one ever even whispered the word “lesbian”, which is one reason I didn’t discover I was one till I was 41!) Oh well, at least I get to thoroughly enjoy being a flamingly proud gay grandma now!
Let this story, and millions of others like it, be give the fanatical fundies apoplexy, please.
Let it be a great big “FINGER ” in the face of those arrogant bastards who’d like to think they have the power to EVER turn the clock back for us.
Too late, you self righteous, bible-thumping assholes.
(that felt GOOD!)
🙂 scribe
