I am Mary. I’ve been married for 22 years to the guy I met in math class at age 17. We have kids in college, high school, junior high, grade school, and preschool, 10 altogether. Six girls. Four boys. Six of our children arrived via adoption, 2 from Korea and 4 from Ethiopia. I homeschool. I kiss owies. I eat chocolate. I garden. I cook. I watch our budget. I take pictures obsessively. And I write. My book about mothering a large family will be in bookstores in March 2009. I am currently working on a book telling how I feed my family of 12 on $900 a month. I am very busy and very, very blessed.
If I had to describe this blog in one sentence, I’d say it is about making the most of your resources so that you can have the greatest impact possible on the world around you, beginning, of course, with family.
Other places you can find my writing:
–My Ethiopia adoption blog. I wrote here for two years about the ins and outs of adopting a child from Ethiopia. I am not working there currently, but my huge archives are still there, filled with answers to almost any question you might have about adopting a child from Ethiopia.
– Largerfamilies.com. This is a collaborative blog written by a bunch of moms with big families. I write here once a month or so, talking about the various challenges mothers of many face.
–I also write at Work It, Mom once a month or so, on the topic of adoption.
Oh, and the name Owlhaven? It came because our home sits on a rocky hillside where burrowing owls nest.
I'm Mary, wife to John, and mom to 10 kids ages 3-20. Six of them were adopted, from Ethiopia and Korea. I spend my days applying Bandaids, reminding kids to use their inside voices, persuading kids fractions are useful, cooking spicy ethnic food, and snapping gig after gig of pictures. Very late at night, I write about it all.
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