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31 Days of Adoption in Akers’ World

10.10.11

31 Days. Love the concept of writing about something you are passionate about for 31 days during the month of October. I totally wish I had heard about that before. Such a neat idea.

But, I did get to participate just a little.

Abby Akers, sweet mama of 1 cutie pie through domestic adoption, has contributed to We Are Grafted In twice (thus far). She wrote the moving piece about open adoption and her visit with her son’s birth mom — Chuck E. Cheese Meltdown. And, she also wrote the piece Forgetful that I know so many moms can relate to as they deal with worry and planning (or is that just me?).

Well, she is one of the 746 (!) 31 Days participants (and I was hoping to check them all out…ummm…yeah, that’s not going to happen). But, I will be reading Abby’s — 31 days of adoption.

9 days into October and she’s already posted about a family via domestic transracial adoption, open adoption, adoption not being second best, shopping to support adoption, questions from birth moms, adoption grants and loans, and fundraising.

So, that brings us to Day 10. And, I had the honor of being featured today.

She gave me some questions, and I started writing.

Go make yourself a cup of coffee…or maybe put on a pot?…and go take a look. I get Day 10 AND Day 11 due to my verbosity.

How embarrassing.

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Posted by Kelly the Overthinker
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{Parenting is} not always all that exciting

10.10.11

“Wow, you’ve got your hands full.” (eye roll or sympathetic grin)

That’s the typical response when someone hears I have 4 kids. For some reason, 3 is considered totally normal. But, one more than that, and you are a glutton for punishment or something.

“How do you keep up?” usually follows.

I’m busy — no, not busy — purposeful. And, yes, somedays I feel like I’m just keeping my head about water. But, it’s not always that way.

Our days are not all over scheduled. We aren’t a soccer family, going to practices every night and cheering at games on the weekends. We aren’t going through fast food drive thru lines to catch dinner in between activities. We do have free evenings, particularly on weekends since somehow having “a lot of kids” keeps you anchored on Saturday nights.

And, on those free evenings, we pretty much just spend time together. Red box movie nights. Dessert at Dunkin Donuts. Walks in the park.

And, these unexciting times become my favorite times. No agenda. No technology except to find out how long the iditarod race is for Evan. And, the only frustration being my inability to get a good picture of my 4 children.

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