[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by carnation
Our 5 children who are adopted are Japanese (2), Chinese/Filipino/Hispanic, Vietnamese/Chinese, and Hispanic. Our family has adopted extensively--Mr. C's sister has a Chilean daughter and many, many of our cousins have adopted kids too (black/white, Hispanic, Asian). I've planned to adopt since childhood and when I got married, Mr. C was like, oh what the heck, sounds interesting!

Our challenge is not so much parenting a multiracial family but rather parenting so many kids. It takes a bunch of work to stay on top of everyone's needs, desires, schedules, etc. Yet we make the kids our priority and that seems to work out; we don't have much of a social life outside of events related to the kids but we don't really care. We married relatively late so we feel like, "Been there, done that," with regards to partying and so forth.

The hardest thing for me is parenting boys. Our first 6 were girls and I can't believe the dumb butt stuff that boys do.

There were 5 of us kids (2 boys and 3 girls) too and I to this day do not know how on earth my parents did it.! An afternoon with my nephew wears me out!