Pictures! Take lots of pictures so we can celebrate vicariously!

I promise pictures. Particularly the lazing on the beach variety.

So envious. Not in the cards for me this week unfortunately.

Hi, friends. I'm sorry to just jump in with HOLY SHIT stuff, but this is a safe place to say things that I can't in other spaces and I'm about to burst with this one! Two words: Dyke Drama! We are one of three two-mom families at Shane's preschool. Awesome, right? Well, today we got confirmation of something we kind of suspected. An affair has been going on between two of the moms in the other two families. Holy shit. And it seems like perhaps one of the moms had no idea this was happening, just found out in the last couple of days, and booted her cheating wife out of their house. DW and I are sad for the kids (5 kids total!) and angry. Angry because we are at a co-op school so we are all very involved with each other and are good friends (so we thought) and I can't believe they did this. Angry because irrational as it may be, we feel like it reflects badly on us as a lesbian-led family. Angry on behalf of the wronged spouses, and all of us who have been lied to for months.

I just can't quite wrap my head around it. The two who have been having the affair are both stay at home moms who have been totally dependent on their partners for money. Now they are moving in together, which just pisses me off for the kids (oldest kid is 7, youngest is 3). First they pull the kids out of their homes, away from their other parent, and now throwing them all together like they are a new family. Who does that? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???? It's just depressing. Also, what the hell do you say? I'm certainly not going to be like, "Oh, great! Congratulations!" You know what else? It's always the people who are like, "I love you sooooooooo much, snookums! We have the most perfect, special relationship on the plaaaaanet!" who break up in spectacular fashion.

Whew, I feel a little better just putting it out there. Good Lord, people!

I'm not sure brackets are the right response for that one.... maybe shots? After the kids are in bed, of course.

"Honey, if I wanted to live in a reality TV show, I'd have moved in next to the Kardashians."

edit: Maybe with a little "Bless your heart" thrown in, depending on what level of Southern "charm" you can put into it.

I had a customer from the Carolinas use that phrase in regards to the previous tech who tried to help her. She laughed when I snickered.

Wait, the 2 affair having women are taking all the kids with them! Whole thing suck, except for the lovey doves apparently.

GC, WOW. Others closer to similar situations might want to chime in, but my first thought is, if you have the energy and time, some of the kids might want to come over to your house as a respite from the drama.

Drama is always less fun when it touches on folks you care about. How hard for those kids. I imagine that the 2 moms in question see themselves as trying to make the new home as stable as possible for the kids, but actually having to come to terms with that much change all at once can be really hard on them. Not that there's an easy way to get through a divorce. On the other hand, kids can be enormously resilient.

I don't know the specifics of the new home dynamics. We knew that one of the moms was looking for a place for her and her 2 kids, and today we found out the other mom (the one she was cheating with) is moving in, too. That mom has 3 kids. Not sure what the story is with the moving in, but it looks like she was busted by her wife and tossed out (we base this on the fact that this now ex-couple was all lovey dovey on Facebook Saturday). Oy. What a tangled web. These poor kids. I'm just... I don't even. And we are touring a pre-K with one of these fools on Friday. Don't even know WHAT to say to her, though I'm liking the Kardashian thing...