What is my mission?

My mission is to prepare my kids to be independent. It means finding the resources, exploring the options, and helping them along the path until they can stand on their own two feet.

I chose to adopt my children which meant I took on an additional mission. I will help them overcome the trauma of their past. We do the therapy. I take the classes, I read the books, I go to everything to show them I will be there. I am still here doing the work. I learn more every day and I take that knowledge to guide the next steps.

My mission is to help my children heal from the pain the world caused them. My job has been to take the hurt and pain hurled at me and see past it to the suffering they are still feeling from things that happened before I could protect them.

I help them navigate their own feelings. I show them how you set boundaries with people who hurt you. I am still there when they fall and when they lash out at me. They try to prove that I will walk out on them as well. I am still here and I will always be here. I will always love them and understand them in a way that nobody else has taken the time to do.

They are my greatest success and my greatest failure all in one. Just as I am theirs. I helped them reach new heights, but I still cannot take away the pain from before me. I cannot take away the past. I can only stand with them now and help them walk by themselves into their future.

I know they both have the capability of being incredible people who could do extraordinary things. I am just here to help them on their path.