I just took 22 of my children to the dollar theater to see The Astronaut Farmer. We loved it, even my 4 and 5 years old kids paid attention, and we ran into a friend of ours who has around a dozen children as well. Wonderfully inexpensive entertainment for large families.

For $22 we saw an inspiring movie that some might mutter, “That’s impossible!” It’s not impossible for a farmer, with an aeronautical degree, to build and launch a rocket from his barn.

I’m raising possibility thinkers, thank you Dr. Robert Schuler. I’m their mom, their coach and their encourager. They came out of foster care, from horrendous circumstances, yet I’m here to exclaim positively that I’ll help them all go after their dreams.

I’m living my dream, the mom of 39 kids, the ones I’m trying to properly parent, often against their will, as they’d seemingly rather run wild, be hateful, and live way beneath their potential and abilities at times.

But no one said it’d be easy.

No dream fulfillment is without challenges or uphill battles, no winning occurs without a fight. Victory is sweet after the battles.

I spent two decades building this dream, and I’ll spend another two decades maintaining it, and watching kids grow into who they can be. It only begins with the adoption paperwork and then the real work begins. The honeymoon ends and the trials begin.

I’ve been right honest and upfront in my writing in regards to the struggles as well, I certainly wish I had all the kids on board, all team players firmly desiring to help build our family up, but it is not so. Rather I have in-house critics, feet draggers and sabotagers, but that’s what everyone faces in life, that’s part of the experience.

This astronaut farmer faced an impossibility, but beat it down and won. It’s a movie, duh, not real life, but I truly find it to be representative of the big picture of chasing a dream. It was an inspiring movie, and it provoked interesting conversation on the way home amongst children who’ve not personally witnessed a great deal of dream building, it’s up to me to instill that in my children.