Closing Down the Shop

After five and a half years of blogging, I've decided to stop. Thank you for reading, responding, and just being there. I've enjoyed the process and hope you have too. If you are in the habit of following along with our family and want to stay in the loop, please add me and Marcia as friends on facebook (let us know how you know us) and also on twitter. We would love to stay in touch.

Be well. Enjoy each day,

Grrrlville

Comments

[Vikki]

I'm shocked. Truly. I wish you and your family all the best.

[Stesha]

This is my first visit to your site. You have a lovely family. Wish I could have started from the beginning.

Be well.

Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha

[spyderkl]

I understand why, but I'll still miss you. Haven't commented too much lately, but I've tried to visit almost every day.

[Dana]

Robin--I will miss your thoughtful posts and wonderful photos of your engaging, beautiful girls. Thank you for sharing these pieces of your life with us. I know you have inspired many other parents and prospective parents as well. Please do keep in touch.

[Marcia]

I think this is the right thing for you, Robin, but I do feel incredible sadness. You have chronicled our family from day one--the ups, the downs, and the day-to-day stuff involved in making and growing as a family. Thank you, thank you (ESPECIALLY since I never got around to making a SINGLE scrapbook of memories along the way). LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

P.S. To all of Robin's faithful readers, her birthday is this Tuesday so WISH her some love. XO

[Ann (Sieber)]

Marcia gave the heads' up:

Since I was in disbelieving awe that you were able to blog so thoughtfully and consistently, I suppose it shouldn't be a big fat surprise when you sense it's time to bow out gracefully. But your other mother presence seemed one of the constants of the universe. What a great run you've had of insights and reflections chronicling Grrrlville, letting us share in it and be Grrrlvillagers just a little bit ourselves, a happy thing.

Happy trails!

[Julia]

I couldn't agree more with what Ann just said. I've been reading your blog for so long, checking for regular updates and looking forward to your thoughful, sweet and inspiring posts.

I'll miss you and your girls!

[Kathrin]

Well, girls, I only had a month or two with you - but what fun that was. Enjoy your blog free life.
Thank.
All the bst from Germany

[N]

I will definitely miss seeing you in my blog rotation. I'm glad you're doing what's good for you, though. :)

[Shannon Buggs]

Robin,

Thank you for being brave enough to start this blog.
Thank you for sharing so much of your life and family with us. Thank you for knowing when to stop writing this blog.
Thank you for displaying courage and beauty and grace always.

Ashe'.

Shannon

[lorilhahn]

Robin - I totally get quitting. I will miss you and the girls and your wonderfully patient partner, but I will hope to see you on FB. It's one of the best out there, this blog.

[femmeismygender.wordpress.com]

Wow Robin, I'm so sad to read this. Thank you so much for sharing with us all so eloquently and with such candour for so long. It was fantastic to share the journey with you all. Lots of love femmeismygender (aka Queen of Google ;-)) XXX

[Rachel]

Robin, wow. Thanks for sharing Grrrlville with us. I'm glad to know we know splendid people in common and hope that our paths will cross at a playground soon!

[valerie]

Robin,

Like everyone else, I'm sad to hear that you will no longer be blogging. I have greatly enjoyed reading your posts over the last few years.

Valerie

[MaryScott]

You remain one of my great inspirations. Even though I didn't read daily, or even weekly, I took great comfort and pleasure, and yes, pride in your beautiful work here. Thank you for your guts and the resulting glory of the last five-and-a-half years of the OTHER mother. I will miss it, but I can't wait to see what's next. And meanwhile, I hope this means you will be getting more sleep!

[Stacy Aab]

Wow...I'm stunned over here. Understanding the many reasons why...but wow. What an accomplishment. What a beatiful record of you and your family. Good luck to all of you. Looking forward to what's coming next!

All best,
Stacy

[Heather]

Goodbyes are so sad... I'll just say "well done" and see you on Facebook & in real life!
Heather

[Sylvie]

I check your blog everyday (even if only in Bloglines), love all the pics of Pearl and Carrie and love your stories. I'll miss this! Good luck.

[ron smith]

wow!

well, so glad we can still see all the grrrlville residents around the neighborhood. (and what a great document--yay, robin!)

ron

[Rikje]

I realize that I've been reading your blog the last 3 years or so. I'm really sad that you've been blogging less and now stopping for good. Your blog was one of the first that made me learn that it could be possible to have a family I dream of. Now that sounds pathetic but it is true. Thank you for blogging for us, hugs from Germany.

[eliaday]

I'm so sad to hear that you're closing up shop. Thanks for being one of my favorite parenting blogs out there. I wish you and Marcia and the girls all the best.

And thank goodness for facebook and twitter and all the rest. =)

[[email protected]]

I am so sad, even though I am next door

[Polly]

Noooooooooooooo! Though parts of you are probably saying, "Yesssssssssssss!"

You have been the Northern (okay, Southern) Star for so many of us. Certainly the very first I ever started to read. And the source for so many others. Your community-building has been so important to so many of us, particularly those of us lesbian parents trying to make our various ways in our various home towns flung so far and wide.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I'll say more of that out of the bright glare of the comments, in a forthcoming note.

Thank you.

[Susan]

Robin- Thanks so much for sharing your family. It's been a joy to follow their progress- and your as a parent. Be well.

[Christa]

Wha wha wha what? Really? In shock and saddened. Reading your blog was like an instruction manual for my wife and I and our baby on the way. I will miss your posts, but will continue to follow you on Facebook.

So can we expect to see your blog in a book in the future? Just a thought. I know I would buy a copy! Best wishes for the whole family.

[[email protected]]

why, oh why???

[Zach]

Like so many others, I am saddened at your news. My lack of my own blog gives me absolutely no room to criticize even if that were my inkling, though--which it's not. I'm glad to have been able to read about your family for the year or so since I found your blog. My partner and I are still a little ways off from having kids, but I hope they grow up to be like yours! and that we can be parents like you and Marcia.
thanks for all you have written. I hope you pick it up again someday.

[Frannyo]

Polly hit upon something important - THANK YOU for giving so many of us the courage to create our families. Examples like yours have truly lead the way for this amazing, lovely, lively Gayby Boom that now seems almost normal, unremarkable, because people like you had the courage to show us the way. Who knows how many mini-Pearls you've inspired? Your family has Carried the torch for our rainbow lives.

(Thanks for not deleting this post because of the horrible puns. Laughter through tears, right?)

See you at Discovery Green sometime soon, and hugs hugs hugs all around.

[elswhere]

Oh! I will miss your blog! But enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.

[elswhere]

And, what so many in previous comments have said: THANK YOU! Yours was I think the very first lesbian-parenting blog I found, lo these many years ago, and it's been a consistent inspiration to me.