Two years ago today, I wrote my first post for Mombian. My goal was to create a blog of useful and fun news and resources for lesbian moms—as lesbians and as moms. Today, I look back on over 1000 posts, two successful Blogging for LGBT Families Days, almost 600 entries in the Mombian Resource Directory, and a growing number of readers.
More important than the numbers, however, are the connections I’ve made with so many of you, including those I am now proud to call friends. We are building a community here in the lesbian-mom blogosphere, and the LGBT-families blogosphere, and all of the other intersecting spheres to which we belong. I’m glad to be a part of it.
I also look at my motivation for this site, my son, who has doubled his age during the blog’s existence. I’m not the only LGBT parent, I know, writing for my child as much as myself, recording the stories I want him to know when older and trying to make the world a better place for him. Here’s to him, and you, and my partner for putting up with all my late nights. I can’t wait to see what the next two years will bring for all of us.
Happy birthday, and many happy returns of the day, Dana!
Hearty blogiversary congratulations, Dana! It’s amazing what a wonderful resource you’ve built up over such a short time. Clearly, you dedicate an enormous amount of energy to this site, as the quality and the quantity of what you post attests. The two years you’ve been writing it have fairy closely overlapped with my parenthood, and I’m infinitely grateful for that. I’m so much better informed, and feel so much a part of something larger, thanks to what you share with us all. Here’s to the next two, and the next two, and so on and so on.
Happy Blogiversary. You put in a lot of work over here. I find myself checking almost daily to find out what’s news.
Happy, happy birthday. I’ve just recently discovered Mombian and it has quickly become a staple in my daily blogosphere routine. Thank you for all that you share with us.
Denise, Melissa, Isabel and Analise