Who’s Owlhaven?

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 “A Sane Woman’s Guide to Mothering a Family” will be in bookstores in March 2009. My next book will describe how I feed my family of 12 on $900 a month.

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:

-I write once a month on the topic of parenting at 5 Minutes for Parenting

–I also write once monthly at Work It, Mom on the topic of adoption.

– Largerfamilies.com. is a collaborative blog where I wrote occasionally about the various challenges mothers of many face.

–If you are considering adoption, you may also want to read the archives of my Ethiopia adoption blog. I am not currently writing there, but my archives there are filled with answers to almost any question you might have about adopting a child from Ethiopia.
Oh, and the name Owlhaven? It came because our home sits on a rocky hillside where burrowing owls nest.