In ten years, I plan to have a lot of things changed. I hope we have finally finished updating and upgrading our house. All the plans we had for it when we bought it over a decade ago. To have a functioning beautiful yard to go with it. Currently letting the animals tear it up because most of it will be messed up when we rebuild the garage. I am only taking care of the gardens any more.
I hope to have made a lot of progress on my writing career. Things are moving quite well. Under the name of this blog, I am still very far from finishing anything to print as of yet, but some writing has begun. Trying to convey pain and trauma in a way that is not horribly depressing is difficult. I am trying to let it be organically written to let myself be as humorous in my writing as I am when I tell the stories out loud. The fictional writing under a different name is going quite well. Should have a book ready for publishing by the end of the month, which is distracting from my writing the semi-autobiographical books.
I am still on the fence with whether I can emotionally handle another adoption. It has been an ongoing thing. For now, we have tabled it as we work on strengthening our marriage. We also hope to do a big trip before we even begin the process. We are hoping to go to Australia. A life goal from my childhood was to visit every continent and I have yet to leave this one. I think it is time that I make progress on my childhood dream.
I hope to be healthier in every meaning of the word. My body, mind, and spirit were completely ruined by the roller coaster that has been our lives for the last eight years. Now that it is all over, my blood pressure is back to being well below normal like it was before. Weight has been sliding off, and muscles have started to show again. Slowly we are returning to a healthier state of being.
Ten years seems like a long time, but it can be over so quickly. Only time will tell.
Mother of Trauma 
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