You People

Yesterday
I was effectively
"you peopled"
by a child at our kids school
not just any kid either
one who really really knows us
has been to our home
in our car
to our kids parties

I was waiting to pick up our daughter from kindergarten
I heard a child voice saying
"Hi Mrs. Harris"
which always makes me laugh
so formal
so my mother
so not me
I smiled at her
"you know honey you can just call me Stacey" I said
she just smiled up at me
and happily stated
"I can't tell you apart, so I just call you both Mrs. Harris"
and truly I was stunned.
silent actually - which is really weird for me
For one
Jessie and I really are not lookalikes
although occasionally matching we never twin EVER
(my mom does by us everything in twos..
but we do not wear them at the same time
okay maybe the sandals...)
My hair is shaved off, I wear ripped jeans
my eyebrow is pierced
I am short with glasses
I am boish
Jessie is tall and has hair (not long but long for a dyke)
and she is always dressed up, coming from work she is girly
so I sat silent
almost feeling slapped

so odd
to just be written off
you are just one of them
why should I bother to tell you apart
you are lesbians
same
even at 9 or 10 or 11 whatever she is
she saw us as a group
not me as a person
and felt no issue with that at all.

It's great to be gay! Advice to a rural mom!

Dear Evolved Moms: I live in the middle of the country in the middle on nowhere - really! It's hard here to live, its hard to be gay here. It's super hard to be a gay mom here. Please please please tell me something uplifting about being gay. It's just hard today. And you always make me laugh! Kentucky mama.

Okay Kentucky mama. Here is my best shot.

Top 10 reasons to be a lesbian (and a lesbian mom):

1) Think of what we save on birth control!

2) We can't get pregnant by accident - no unplanned babies for us!

3) When we do wants kids - we have two uterus's to work with

4) We can share clothing with our partner - double the wardrobe.

5) We always get and give empathy for PMS and cramps with our wife!

6) We can always fool around in bathrooms together!

7) We are finally cutting edge - everyones trying it - I guess queer really is the new black!

8) We get to make all of our conservative relatives and neighbors nervous - and make them think of things they really don't want to just by existing (hee hee)

9) The L-Word

10) We might finally have a vagina in the white house - and one who loves us!

okay 11) We get our own parade every year!

Hope that helps!

It really is a wonderful life. find love - find humor - and live

Evolved Mom Stacey