DADsquared℠

Nearly two years has passed since we introduced the word DADsquared to the world. It began with the  Facebook page  and this blog but it quickly became more. DADsquared became a home for men (and women) all around the world searching for a missing piece in their lives, and that missing piece was children. Since it's birth, DADsquared has seen the world of Gay Dads rise to such unbelievable heights that I often stand back in awe. Our making Babbles Top 50 Blogs for 2012 is certainly proof of that. We have seen countless numbers of new families being created. We have been guided and help guide many people towards parenthood. We have forged relationships with some amazing attorneys, surrogacy agencies, adoption agencies and all sorts of professionals who's expertise in helging LGBT families grow is undeniable. As we ourselves grew we found ourselves building DADsquared in the same way we build families, with hope, blind faith and trust. In c...

It was Friday night and we just dropped off our 6yr old at the gymnastics center’s “Parents night out”.   Maybe your city has this?   Our local trampoline place does this as well as our gymnastics place.   You pay $25.00 and you can leave your kids there from 7pm to midnight.   The kids get to play all night, they get pizza, snacks and usually they have a lot of friends from school there.   They will even post photos of the kids playing on Facebook.   Sounds great right?   Well it was a tough week of work for my partner and I.   Our little guy had swim practice Monday and Wednesday, yoga on Tuesday, Kumon (after school learning program) on Tuesday and Thursday and art class on Friday.   He needed a distraction too.    We headed to the gymnastics place to drop him off and there was the usual “Ok, dads, kiss me goodbye out here in the parking lot so my friends don’t think I’m a baby”.   Then we go...