LilySea

I am a life-partnered, overeducated, underpaid tea-not-coffee-drinking lesbian co-parenting and homeschooling two beautiful daughters adopted in domestic, open, transracial adoptions. After six years on the prairie, we have moved to Chicago (September 2008). Right now we're subletting an artist's loft in an alley behind a gallery, while we shop for something more permanent, preferably zoned residential.

I used to write a blogger blog called "Waiting for Nat." Once Nat arrived, we moved here.

For my biography in one sentence per year, see this post.

Cast of Characters:

Mama Shannon (me--the girlie mom and domestic engineer)

Cole-Mom (my partner--the boyish mom and bacon bringer)

Nat (older daughter born & adopted 2/05)

Selina (younger daughter born & adopted 6/07)

Mama Rose (Nat's first mother)

Mama Fern (Selina's first mother)

Uncle David (our handy-nanny and onetime next-door neighbor)

Uncle Sasha (Shannon's good friend in town)

Aunt Nancy (Shannon's good friend out-of-town)

Uncles Wayne and Davis (Godfathers to the kids)

Sundry other aunts, uncles, grandparents, babysitters, friends and Internet pals TBA