What is your dream?" What does your life look like in a year from now?" Or even 5 years from now?" The question even after high school I'm still asked that question. But then again it's something I sit back looking back at my life and wonder myself. My dream.... At 9 years old I had this plan on how my life was going to look like. 18 I would move out of my parents house, 21 I would have a boyfriend as well as become a certified foster parent, 22 would married my boyfriend after a year together. Because I believed (maybe still do) if you haven't been together for a year there's a high chance of divorce if you get married before your dating time is up. 23 expect our first child, 28 prep for fostering my first foster kids while raising my child. But as I got older none of those things really worked out in my favor. Well at 21 I completed my foster care classes. As I grew older some of my dreams changed. After high school I realized that I wanted to be a event planner or a life coach. I was talking my friend peet one day when I lived with my sister about how much I loved helping people figure out a way of helping themselves. Life coach seemed like the perfect fit with doing a little event planning on the side. Fast forward 2 years later I started working as a respite care provider and working more with kids. Foster and special needs kids and loving it. I started seeing myself working in a career helping children in ways that they didn't have a voice or were understood. It sounded so wonderful and so fitting. Except for one thing. I started losing excitement and joy and realized that Event planning was becoming more and more something I always went to giving so much and excitement to. Don't get me wrong, I still wanted to help foster kids and continue doing respite. So I kept pressing into those areas as they still felt a part of something I wanted to do. So forward to present day..What is my dream? What do I see myself in the next 5 years? I don't know, I really hope to start fostering in 5 years while living in a area where I could be putting my event planning skills to work. Or even being a stay home introvert mom who is also a writer who wants to share her work with the world besides certain blog pieces. If only dreams could become my reality.
