There are so many tails of my mom and dad I do not know where to start, but this past weekend was a classic.  I received a text message from my nearly 80 year old mom who saw that my daughter had put a pride frame around her FB profile picture, like just about everyone.  Abby is 19 and although has only dated boys she considers herself bi-sexual because she believes in love of a person not a gender, however has not dated another female.  Why does it matter, well it doesn’t except in context.  I wake on on Friday to this text:

“Beautiful picture of Abby.  With the PRIDE sign does that mean she is officially announcing she’s a lesbian?  Just wondering as we don’t know all the processes.  Love you, mom.”

Ok, I admit it I laughed out loud.  Here they are trying so hard to understand and be accepting and it made my heart smile just a bit more.  So I reached out to my sisters to share in the moment and am told that my dad called them both to ask the same question.  Ok, now I am really smiling and laughing.  Then of course I shared with Abby who had the same reaction as the rest of us, as did my other 2 daughters.

As I thought about this over the weekend I realized a couple of things.  I truly am dealing with very different generations right now in my life.  Liberal daughters who have grown up in a very liberal, accepting community, where most of their best friends are members of the LGBTQ community.  They have grown up not even giving pause to what their friends sexuality preference is because it never mattered.  Grace had 2 years where her slumber party for her birthday consisted of a lesbian, transgender and gay friend.  Her comment to me at the time, “mom it’s awfully hard to be Hetero these days…sigh.”  lol  Then I have these lovely parents who came from the generation of the 50’s where the LGBTQ community was very closed and they didn’t know anyone in HS who was open.  But they want to be accepting and understanding, which I think is wonderful.  They are trying so hard to understand the world my children live in, which isn’t always easy in an Iowa town.  I mean hey we have come a long way from my marrying a Catholic….OMG!  lol

This is PRIDE month and I am celebrating.  I am celebrating that I have a family who loves each other and others not because of how they identify themselves but for who they are as individuals.  I am proud of my parents and I am proud of my daughters….