[UUPoly-L] Introduction

[Connie Riley <connie23452@yahoo.com>]

Hi!  I am new to the list and wanted to give a quick introduction.  It is nice to see that there are other people open to different ways of doing things!  I am a military wife who has been happily married for 16 years, and we have two children.  A dear friend agreed to join our family about eight months ago.  So to put a label on us I guess we are now what you would call a triad?  We are all excited and happy, but nervous and a little bit scared because this is unfamiliar territory.  
 
I am excited to see that there are local chapters of UUPA forming, but disappointed that there isn't one in our area yet.  We have just started going to the UU church in our area, but we haven't really met anyone so far.  We have been nervous about going together as a family, because the very first Sunday we attended there was a couple from work who were also there.  The military can be very harsh when dealing with people who have different sexual tendencies, and so we don't know if it is really "safe" for all three of us to go to the service and sit together and be seen...  
 
We would just really like to meet other families, especially families with children, who are different from the norm and who we can relate to.  We don't want our children to feel like they are the only ones with "weird" parents.  :-)  We are in the Norfolk, Virginia area.  
 
Thank you for listening!