Draw something normal

Gay marriage was struck down in Maine yesterday.

On my way home today I was thinking about that, and feeling guilty that I didn't do anything to help that battle, and yet here I was a year ago trying to get everybody I knew, in any state, to support our fight against Prop 8 in California. I don't know anybody in Maine, and I couldn't travel there to campaign, but I could have at least given a little money.

Why is this so important? Over dinner I heard another example of why.

Sophia told me that today in English class they read "It's Okay to be Different" and "The Daddy Book" (Todd Parr favorites). Then they drew pictures of something normal. I asked her what she drew, and she said "two daddies." Rock on Sophia!

That's why it's important. Here we've got these amazing kids and we're very much a family, regardless of who recognizes our marriage. Why should my kid or anybody else for that matter think this is anything other than normal?

Anyway, we've been reading Todd Parr's books since the kids were infants. We all love them! Once, when we were visiting my parents in Boston we went to the New England Mobile Book Fair, still my favorite bookstore anywhere, and they had a section with every single Todd Parr book that's published. We got a bunch of them!