Hee hee.
Mikaela Writes:
It was one of my early visits to Chloe’s Closet, a kids’ consignment shop in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of SF. Bernal is one of the places we would live if we were going to be rooting here – filled with kids and conscious parents, but not precious and stroller-upping; hip, but not SO hipster; a main street boasting a great market, yoga studio, and a few good coffee shops. What I have learned to be the California essentials. Anyway, I was there on this morning a few months with Asher looking for a few new duds for him since the hand-me-down train had stopped coming to our door.
“I love my Moms.” I saw this shirt and it jumped out at me. I saw “Moms” as me. You know, like “Pops.” So wanting to bring a little more urban into our decidedly West Coast slowed down life. Moms. Pops. I didn’t think of Moms as two of them, two of them raising their son --- two women who become two mommies. Yes, I do live in San Francisco in the age of Prop 8 and somehow, that just didn’t occur to me. Ben and Lacy and everyone else who we have told (including you I would bet now) finds that hysterically funny. Ok, so it was.
So, in this photo you see Lacy, our nanny, who also worked on the No to Prop 8 campaign in California - before taking on the very different challenge of caring for two under-one year-olds (soon to be two over one-year olds!) Lacy took Asher and his mate Benji down to a Prop 8 rally in his “Moms” shirt with her friend Brenna who pretended to be her partner and Asher’s other mommy. Benji apparently played the role of his brother. As the story goes, several photojournalists snapped some shots. We have no idea if they ever ran.
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It was one of my early visits to Chloe’s Closet, a kids’ consignment shop in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of SF. Bernal is one of the places we would live if we were going to be rooting here – filled with kids and conscious parents, but not precious and stroller-upping; hip, but not SO hipster; a main street boasting a great market, yoga studio, and a few good coffee shops. What I have learned to be the California essentials. Anyway, I was there on this morning a few months with Asher looking for a few new duds for him since the hand-me-down train had stopped coming to our door.
“I love my Moms.” I saw this shirt and it jumped out at me. I saw “Moms” as me. You know, like “Pops.” So wanting to bring a little more urban into our decidedly West Coast slowed down life. Moms. Pops. I didn’t think of Moms as two of them, two of them raising their son --- two women who become two mommies. Yes, I do live in San Francisco in the age of Prop 8 and somehow, that just didn’t occur to me. Ben and Lacy and everyone else who we have told (including you I would bet now) finds that hysterically funny. Ok, so it was.
So, in this photo you see Lacy, our nanny, who also worked on the No to Prop 8 campaign in California - before taking on the very different challenge of caring for two under-one year-olds (soon to be two over one-year olds!) Lacy took Asher and his mate Benji down to a Prop 8 rally in his “Moms” shirt with her friend Brenna who pretended to be her partner and Asher’s other mommy. Benji apparently played the role of his brother. As the story goes, several photojournalists snapped some shots. We have no idea if they ever ran.
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