Children Living in Sorrow

My brother's live in sorrow basically their whole lives since they were born. Our mother is a really big alcoholic and their dad is just well lets just say he is a few peas short of a pea pod.

My mother up and left me and my sister when I was 4 years old and my sister was 6 years old. She never came back for us leaving me and my sister to be raised by our grandparents. Now when my sister turned about 14 years old and i was 12 years old our mother left my brother's dad for another man. I moved back in with my mother and so did my brother's. This man she met was really nice.

It didn't take long before we were moving again. I have moved alot in my life and I am so sick of moving. Anyways, we moved to another city and my mother and her boyfriend were in the bar every night of the week except for Sundays because of course the bars are not open on Sunday's.

I was left at home with my two brother's at the age of 13 maybe 14 to take of them while my mother and her boyfriend went to bars till god hours of the night. It is hard raising two kids when you are barely a teenager. I took good care of them every day made sure they were fed and bathed and clothed and ready for school the next day. Also I had to get myself ready for school the next days too. I was like a mom but wasn't.

My childhood is something I will never get back. I longed everyday to be able to go play with my friends and do stuff with them, but I couldn't because I had my two brother's to look after. They were my main priority. Since my mom was never a mother to them.

I hate how when people have kids they think they can just give up being a parent and do whatever it is they think they can do. Not caring about how their kids are and how much they need their parents.

I right now am 25 years old. I have custody of one of my brother's who is 16 almost 17. Yes I am still raising him because our mother never came back to get them and give them a good life. So I am taking her place because I want my brother's to have a better life than what I had and what my mother gave them.

My mother gave her rights up to my brother's along time ago. She said she no longer wanted the hassel dealing with kids. If you ask me she had them she should raise them.

I have given up my entire life for my brother's so they could have a life with no worries. Hopefully I am doing a good job. I would like to think I am, but some people may say differently.

I try to me a mother to my brother's as well as a sister and it gets pretty hard sometimes, but I never give up. As I hope they never give up on me. My husband helps out a lot with them when I am tired and can no longer do it.

I know whenever me and my husband has kids we will love every minute we are with them and never let them go as I hope for my brother's when they have kids they will do the same to their children.