Daily Dose of Mama: Click

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Click

I take a lot of pictures. It's a FAIL month if my web album has less than 100 pictures of my child. Yet, for all the pictures I take, sometimes it's the ones I don't take that stick in my mind.

Like the picture I mentally snapped this morning when Little Bug woke up in our bed and was overjoyed to find Appa there (after a week away). Little Bug sat up and used his insistent little toddler hands to roll Appa over onto his back. He then mounted Appa and began to play horse...a very vigorous ride.

On a full bladder, that was not the wake up Appa was looking for.

As I took pity on my husband and tried to lure my child off him, Little Bug stilled his ride, stretched his baby body out over Appa's chest, and laid his head against his heart, a little smile playing on his lips as he listened to his daddy's heart beat.

Click.

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KrisJune 26, 2010 at 5:27 PM
"Click." I love this. Such a sweet moment.
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KristenJune 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM
aaawwww!
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Everyday Mama

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.

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