Daily Dose of Mama: Absofreakinlutly

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Absofreakinlutly

Today is our 6-year wedding anniversary (11.5 years together, but who is counting). We had a really lovely day as a little family and managed to sucker a friend into watching Little Bug for a few hours while we ate at a Jamaican restaurant we love.

People always say that you should make an effort to have couple time and individual time after you have kids.

Those people are absofreakinlutly right.

I think I am getting to a good place with the independent time, but Appa and I still struggle with the couples time. Our weekly date nights are now family-go-out-to-eat nights. The truth is finding a babysitter is a pain in the butt, especially when the babysitter needs to be skilled and poised enough to deal with the little things that come with Little Bug's special needs. A 12-year-old neighbor girl is not going to cut it for us.

I digress. My anniversary...it was great to spend a couple hours enjoying food, drink, and laughter with my husband. He truly is my best friend and the one person in this world I have chosen to spend everyday forever with....and that is a cool thing.

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I'm a 32-year-old everyday mama. My husband (Appa) and I adopted our first son Little Bug (at 10 months old) from Korea in September 2008. We adopted our second son, Little Bro, from Korea in April 2011 at age 21 months. We adopted our third son,Little Moon, at age 3 in November 2013. I've wanted to be a mama for a long time, but I'm still trying to figure out the reality of it all and take time to enjoy the delicate beauty of the highs and the lows.

I worked full time as an editor, which I loved; but I made the bittersweet decision to stay home with my children after Little Bro came home. I'm now clumsily finding my footing in a new world of housekeeping, menu planning, budgeting, cooking, cleaning, and rainy-day activities, as well as navigating the world of IEPs, parent advocacy, and special needs education (spoiler: I suck at house work). My husband is hot and smart and quiet and loyal, and I think (know) my sons are the cutest, happiest little boys in the world.

I also struggle at times with mild depression, anxiety, post-adoption depression, my husband's constant absence due to his stressful and super time-consuming job, the challenges of helping my older son with his sometimes exhausting special needs, and our transition to a family of three little boys with just 19 and 14 months between them. I worry way too much about what people think of me, hate talking on the phone, and I am trying to trust myself more.

Oh yeah, I'm unable to give birth to children; love books, writing, traveling, and the color brown; hate to clean, cook, craft, or do laundry; allergic to pretty much everything but food (thank God); and think camping in anything but a tent is lame.

I needed somewhere to drop my daily mama thoughts and musings on toddler poop to avoid massive clutter and ramblings on our private family blog. Writing it down on paper is so '90s.

This is my everyday "blournal" as I navigate through my life as a first-time (or is it third-time now?) mama and long-time me. So....hi.

You can contact me at daily.dose.of.mama (at) gmail.com.

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