Happy 18th Birthday! I was 44 when the miracle occurred and our baby was born. This is why I have been accused of being his grandfather since I brought in that first roll of film to be developed in Arizona! I always loved kids. My neighbor had young kids that I would babysit for, and […]
Adoption
Paul’s Adoption Story For Father’s Day! #FathersDay #adoption #parenting #HappyFathersDay #Family #LGBTQ #gayparents
I remember everything like it was yesterday. I remember the first time the birth mother called us on the phone, as my friend was driving us to my parents house for Passover. I remember the birth mom calling and saying she had seen some blood in her urine and why didn’t we get ready to […]
Happy Birthday Son! Celebrating Our Son’s Birth Story on His 16th Birthday! #adoption #parenting #family #gayparents
Happy Birthday Son! May 28, 2003 we got the phone call. Something was happening. Be ready she said, I do not think I will make it to my scheduled C-section! We changed our flight and flew to Arizona and drove to the hospital. We met our birth mom for the first time. The next morning […]
Our Adoption Story For Father’s Day! #FathersDay #adoption #parenting #HappyFathersDay #Family
I remember everything like it was yesterday. I remember the first time the birth mother called us on the phone, as my friend was driving us to my parents house for Passover. I remember the birth mom calling and saying she had seen some blood in her urine and why didn’t we get ready to […]
My #Adoption “How To” Can Work For Everyone! #parenting #family
Adoption How To: 1. Try to join a support group in your area. 2. Consider an agency or foster care/foster adopt. 3. Interview adoption lawyers. 4. Interview social workers. 5. Referrals for any of the above are always helpful. 6. Do not be intimidated by the process, don’t give up! How we did it: 1. […]
Retelling Our Son His Birth Story on His 15th Birthday! #adoption #parenting #family #gayparents
May 28, 2003 we got the phone call. Something was happening. Be ready she said, I do not think I will make it to my scheduled C-section! We changed our flight and flew to Arizona and drove to the hospital. We met our birth mom for the first time. The next morning we went back […]
When The Son With Two Dads Asks: Do I Have a Mom? #HappyMothersDay #MothersDay
(Updated from an earlier post from 2012! There is a fairy above our heads in the picture above, but no pun was intended!) When you are in a same sex marriage with an adopted son, this is a question that is bound to come up. I have not read the books and I don’t know […]
November is National Adoption Month! See My “How To Adopt” Guide! #adoption #parenting #adopt
We became daddies over 14 years ago! Paul was born in late May. Three days later the birth mom signed the papers and we were on our way out of town waiting for the state papers to be filed, we needed those to take our son to our home state. The NY court signing a […]
Paul’s Bar Mitzvah Party One Year Anniversary! w/Linky! #parenting #family
Every party had “The Dab” that year!
He Graduated Middle School! w/Linky!
My Long Road to Becoming A Father! #FathersDay #HappyFathersDay #parenting #adoption #gaydads
As a teenager I would fantasize about being married and having a family. Looking back I suppose it was a way to deny what I knew in my heart: I was gay In the 70’s gay people didn’t have kids. If I had a family, then I wasn’t gay. That ended up not working. I […]
I Have Two Dads, Do I Have a Mom? #HappyMothersDay #MothersDay
(Updated from an earlier post from 2012! There is a fairy above our heads in the picture above, but no pun was intended!) When you are in a same sex marriage with an adopted son, this is a question that is bound to come up. I have not read the books and I don’t know […]
We Are in a Mixed Marriage and I Raised Our Son Jewish!
The adoption process was almost at its end. We were working with a birth mother in Arizona and we had a date set for her caesarean section. As a Jewish man, I knew I wanted my child to be Jewish so I started the research and found someone to do the ritual circumcision that is […]
