Marcia's birthday is on Valentine's Day. Pearl, Carrie, and Cody (with a special cameo by Finn) made this video in honor of the special occasion. Happy Birthday, sweetheart!
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13 February 2012
27 August 2009
02 August 2009
What Carrie Did This Summer
24 June 2009
Parent, What Rocks Your iPhone?
With over 50,000 iPhone apps available, it's hard to guess which ones to try. This week the PCMag.com
editors named the 10 iPhone apps for
Parents. Here is their list (quoted):
- Shazam: This app is able to identify whatever song is playing in the background wherever you are; use it to snag a sound bite from that new Top 40 hit your child loves, and get the details on whether it is in line with your family's listening standards.
- White Noise: Babies scream, toddlers pout, and parents can often lose their minds, White Noise is perfect for taking things down a notch.
- Kindle: One of the most exciting apps for the iPhone, Kindle lets you easily bring along most any book or magazine for you and your kids to enjoy on the go. Create your own family book club or read while stuck in a doctor's office, a book of your choice or read to your child.
- GoodFoodNearYou: When you’re on the road with the kids, avoid the fast-food joint and replace it with the convenience of this app to help you find health-conscious dining choices. Input your location and it will return scads of sides, sandwiches, and suppers from every dining destination in the vicinity.
- AllRecipes.com Dinner Spinner: If the question is "What are we having for dinner?" this free AllRecipes.com-powered app will let you choose recipes based on main ingredients, what you have on hand, and how much time you can spare for food prep. Or let it randomly selected meal plan for you.
- Sit Or Squat: When a parent hears "I really gotta go!" finding the nearest bathroom has to happen fast. Using your current location it gives you the nearest options, stats on cleanliness, changing tables and handicap-accessible facilities—mark your favorite toilets for quick returns.
- AirMe: You no longer need to wait until you get home to start sharing photos from birthdays, sporting events or school plays. Use AirMe to upload instantly to Photobucket, TinyPic, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, or Picasa without the hassle of file transfer or e-mail, and without the cost of an external gadget.
- myLite Flashlight: Never lose a pacifier in a dark movie theater again with this app that uses the screen to emit white light. This free app has a straightforward series of settings to control light color and brightness.
- Remember The Milk: This popular and effective list-making and task-management Web site, has a complementary mobile app free to the site's paying members to help keep things sorted when you're shuttling between work, home, and your family's numerous appointments and activities.
- iTalk Recorder: This limited free download allows you to record and store numerous sound files for later use. Files upload easily to you.
This list is by the editors of PC Magazine. iPhone users, what do you think?
04 March 2009
Happy Birthday, Little Blog
The Other Mother has hit another milestone. It's been 5 years, folks. I started the blog a week before Pearl was born, and she'll be 5 next week. Here's a link to the first posts from way back in 2004.
Other good blog news: The Other Mother made the “Top 100 Healthy Mom Blogs” this year, as did our friends at Mombian. The list was compiled by RNCentral, a blog for nursing students.
A five star day, I'd like to think.
26 February 2009
Congrats to All the Winners
Here's a loud shout out to all the winners of the TLL Lezzy Awards for 2009. Hooray, hooray!
Best Lesbian Entertainment/Culture Blog: Dorothy Surrenders
Best Lesbian Humor Blog: Grace the Spot
Best Lesbian Parenting/Wedding Blog: Lesbian Dad
Best Lesbian Feminism/Political Blog: Pam’s House Blend
Best Lesbian Personal Blog: This Girl Called Automatic Win
Best Lesbian 50 and Over Blog: just eat your cupcake
Best Lesbian Gender Bender Blog: Sugarbutch Chronicles
Best Lesbian Sex/Short Story/Erotica Blog: Sugarbutch Chronicles
Lesbian Overall Blog of the Year: Dorothy Surrenders
Congratulation, bloggers! And thanks to our friends at TLL for organizing the awards and bringing the community together around these great blogs!
16 February 2009
Thanks, Bloggers and Readers
Just wanted to thank everyone for participating in the What About Love blog carnival in celebration of Freedom the Marry Week 2009. It's been great to read the many different responses to the Some/things. My favorite part about the carnival was the sharing of stories. Stories are the fabric of our community, and whether we've actually met in person or not, we unite virtually when we share them, both as writers and as readers.
Over the past week during the carnival I've been traveling and have probably missed some of your posts. Please leave comments where I have omitted your link or need to correct it.
13 February 2009
What About Love: Some/thing Blue
Blue is my favorite color, and it always has been. In my writing I use the word "blue" often. It seems to represent all that is. In this photo, for instance, of earth taken from outer space, the demarcations between land and sea, earth and sky, are impossible to distinguish.
Today's post is dedicated to all of you in the process of trying to start a family. I rarely share my own poems but here is a rare exception. I wrote this about before Marcia and I started to TTC (trying to conceive) process.
Blue That’s Almost Blue
To
a Child, Unborn
A calm moon lends a hush within the room
the night outside fills its envelope with dread
a claw of hope scratches its name across clay
I don't know what to feel because I’m rising into
deep blue music a ceremony of inner weather
I marvel over an imagined, sleeping infant
who dreams of islands I've never visited
never will He and I are two
bodies trembling and separate now and always I
hold my breath, a hostage of the sky.
by Robin Reagler
published in Runes
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Note: This post is part of a blog carnival celebrating Freedom to Marry Week 2009. Feel free to write your own post on your blog or facebook page. Then leave the link to your "something new" post, and I will share it with the group. Check out the other posts on this topic:
About.com: Lesbian Life by Kathy Belge
Susan Naomi Bernstein on Facebook and YouTube
The Birmingham-Luther Family Blog
The Longest Road - Yet Untraveled
09 February 2009
What About Love: The Bloggers
You can join the blog carnival at any time until Feb. 14. This list will be updated throughout the week. To be added, leave a comment with your url. For the blog carnival guidelines, click here.
Melissa Beattie-Moss on Facebook
Susan Naomi Bernstein on Facebook
The Birmiingham-Luther Family Blog
I probably think this blog is about me
Justin's Girl on MySpace
Knot so Different: The Aisle Less Taken
Life induces thoughts, mostly random
The Longest Road - Yet Untraveled
Happy Freedom to Marry Week 2009
It's Freedom to Marry week, and equality is what it's all about. The nonprofit group Freedom to Marry has organized activities throughout the week that encourage dialogue between all people.
“Conversations with the circles of people around us are the prerequisite to winning, the key to helping them push past their discomfort, complacency, or indifference to becoming supportive of our equality.”
--Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry Executive Director
In order to facilitate these conversations, Freedom to Marry is sponsoring a number of programs,
including 7 Conversations in 7 Days. If you are a blogger, you can kick off the week by joining the blogswarm. Visit Mombian for more information on that.
As you may know, I am organizing a blog carnival this week, as part of the celebration, and YOU are invited. This afternoon I'll post a list of everyone who is planning to participate, so if you haven't done so already, please let me know. Here's the schedule:
Tuesday, Feb. 10... Something Old
Wednesday, Feb. 11... Something New
Thursday, Feb. 12... Something Borrowed
Friday, Feb. 13... Something Blue
Saturday, Feb. 14... Valentine's Day: Celebrate Love
For more complete guidelines, click here.
05 February 2009
What About Love: Let's Celebrate
Next week is Freedom to Marry Week. Who wants to celebrate LOVE?
I hope you will join me in this blog carnival, which we began last year. The way it works is simple. Each day next week, post to your blog or facebook page something on these topics, according to the "olde" wedding tradition:
Tuesday, Feb. 10... Something Old
Wednesday, Feb. 11... Something New
Thursday, Feb. 12... Something Borrowed
Friday, Feb. 13... Something Blue
Saturday, Feb. 14... Valentine's Day: Celebrate Love
You can post a photo, a memory, a poem, some music, or a combination. Try to surprise us. And once you're done with your post, if you leave a link in the comment section, everyone will be able to check out what you've done.
Feel free to link to The Other Mother, using the "Something" badge. If you're not a blogger, you can participate by leaving a comment. I will be posting links to all contributions here. Just leave the URL as a comment. You can participate all week or whenever you have the time. I'll start by compiling a list of participants, so let me know if you're "in".
If you want to make your story easy to find, use the keyword something2009 .
20 January 2009
Make Your Own Obamicon
Happy Inauguration Day! To celebrate in style, create your own obamicon. You know you want one!
DIY at the Paste Magazine site.
[cross-posted at Big Window] [thanks to MsAbcMom for the link]
09 January 2009
Mombian Fans Only
If you're a Mombian fan, you can vote for that very great lesbian mom blog today. They've been nominated Best Large Blog in the Weblog Awards!
08 January 2009
Top Posts at The Other Mother in 2008
10. She Is - Pearl's Birth Announcement (March 2004) includes a recipe for smothered okra!
9. Birthday Rap - Marcia's Song for Robin's Birthday (September 2008)
8. Question of the Day: Politics and the English Language (October 2008) your thoughts on the BIden/Palin debate
6. Meet the Blogger: Polly Pagenhart of LesbianDad
5. A Costume Question (October 2004)
4. Reader Appreciation Day (April 2008) introducing a meme for bloggers to thank the readers
1. She Was Really Saying Something (Feb. 2008) introducing a meme to celebrate Freedom to Marry week
10 November 2008
Curious Minds Want to Know
I don't usually do things like this. I blame Lori Hahn. She's a bad influence. Visit her blog at your own risk. And if you succumb and take the silly quiz, please be a sport and share your results with the rest of us. Apparently I am Schroeder.
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 | You are Schroeder. You are brilliant, ambitious, and brooding; you tackle tasks with extreme focus. People don't always interest you as much as other pursuits, though, so you can come off as aloof. |
| Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com | |
16 October 2008
Question of the Day: Pastime 2.0
What's your favorite way to waste time on the internet (besides reading this blog, of course!)?
LOGO2.0 part I and II, originally uploaded to flickr by Stabilo Boss.
15 October 2008
Blog Action Day 2008: Understanding Poverty
Often my own response to poverty--my response to seeing a person who's homeless or begging or sleeping on cardboard--is to avert my eyes. This reaction is a complex one which involves judgment and respect and fear and shame. Rather than processing what I've witnessed, I often move mentally a.s.a.p. to an new idea. Pretty much any idea will do.
The exhibit currently showing at DiverseWorks in Houston is called Understanding Poverty. With photography by Ben Tecumseh Desoto and text by Ann Walton Sieber, the exhibit provides us a way to examine our reactions to poverty in a safe space so that we do in fact understand better. Understanding poverty will not solve the problem but it's a smart place to start.
What:
Understanding Poverty
Photographs by Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
Words by Ann Walton Sieber
Curated by Clint Willour
Works by Sarah Whatley Ayers & Forrest Prince
Where:
DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
When:
September 19 - November 1, 2008
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Special Request:
If you blogged about poverty for Blog Action Day 2008, would you please leave the link so that we can read your post? Thanks!
14 August 2008
Girls Meet Web Cam
Yes, the new computer has a web cam. Oh brave new world!
Baba Gets a New Toy
and it's orange.
04 August 2008
The Other Mother's Big Foot Was Here
(via Green Ravioli)
13 June 2008
A Girl Lion Shaking a Lizard to Find Food
Last week I told you about a group of artists who hold weekly Pixel art contests. The challenge last week involved using one of Pearl's "story maps" as a starting point to create a new piece of artwork.
Now that the deadline has passed, they've asked Pearl to choose one winner, and the group will vote on the others. If you'd like to guess which one of these Pearl chose as the winner, feel free to leave a comment below. If you'd like to choose a favorite yourself, check out the Pixel Joint forum.
Pearl decided to do her own "pixel art" project based on her original drawing done last year, but she substituted crayons for pixels. Her offering is called "A Girl Lion Shaking a Lizard to Find Food."
17 April 2008
26 March 2008
Hers and Hers
iphone uploaded to flickr by Madalin Matica
We took the plunge, and the water is fine.
21 February 2008
Tell Them I Was Here
Those of us with full time jobs most likely have a business card, but until Valentine's Day, I've never had a card to identify me as a blogger. Check out this gift from my sweetie. The circle is a little larger than a quarter. It has my name, the URL for this blog, and on the back it says: The Other Mother. Cool?
Design by Nicole Richard via Etsy
30 June 2007
Question of the Day: Where Do You Go?
Here's a geeky question for you this weekend. Which (if any) of the "social networks" (a.k.a. Web 2.0) do you use or enjoy? I'm thinking of virtual arenas such as FaceBook, My Space, LinkedIn, Second Life, Twitter, Stumble Upon, and so on and so on. What do you get out of participating?
12 June 2007
La La La La Links
Do you encourage or discourage computer use for your toddlers? 
I'm such a geek that I try to find websites that the kids will enjoy. Here are a few recent discoveries.
Something for Carrie = Check out PLAY by Dust Films
Something for Pearl = Make a visit to Bembo's Zoo
- based on the book by the same name
Rainy day activity = Try printing and building one of these ReadyMech toys. They're the paper dolls of the digital age. I doubt I have the skill set for the assembly, but you probably do.
04 April 2007
Other Mother Button
Want one of these buttons? Right-click and it's yours, all yours!
05 January 2007
Announcing the TLL Award
Our friends at TLL (The Lesbian Lifestyle) have created a new award for lesbian blogs and websites. The nominated blogs must be written or maintained by lesbians. You can nominate your favorites up until the deadline, Jan. 31st.
19 December 2006
Pop Goes the Jojo Photo
I discovered the Warholizer from one of your blogs. Quite a sea change. I'm not sure what I think of it.
12 December 2006
Vote Today!
One of my favorite blogs, LesbianDad, is a finalist for the 2006 Weblog Award for Best New Blog. You can be a good citizen and cast your vote here. The polls close on December 15.
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