Two years ago today, I wrote my first post for Mombian. My goal was to create a blog of useful and fun news and resources for lesbian moms—as lesbians and as moms. Today, I look back on over 1000 posts, two successful Blogging for LGBT Families Days, almost 600 entries in the Mombian Resource Directory, and a growing number of readers.

More important than the numbers, however, are the connections I’ve made with so many of you, including those I am now proud to call friends. We are building a community here in the lesbian-mom blogosphere, and the LGBT-families blogosphere, and all of the other intersecting spheres to which we belong. I’m glad to be a part of it.

I also look at my motivation for this site, my son, who has doubled his age during the blog’s existence. I’m not the only LGBT parent, I know, writing for my child as much as myself, recording the stories I want him to know when older and trying to make the world a better place for him. Here’s to him, and you, and my partner for putting up with all my late nights. I can’t wait to see what the next two years will bring for all of us.