Tears for my boy

I will be updating soon, but I need to write this down before I forget. Every now and then, Matthew says something that blows me away. Today was one of those days.
I was catching up on some blogs and Matthew asked what I was doing. I told him that I was reading about some kids who didn't have mommies and daddies. He said, "It's ok mom, you will have me forever." I told him how glad I was and that he would always be my son. Matthew then told me that he had dreamed that a "mean mommy" had come to take him away from me, but that I was "very strong and beat up the mean mommy." He also told me that when he was little, there was a mean mommy who punched him in the eye. He indicated that his eye had swollen shut and he couldn't see. (This statement is very similar to something I was told by a fellow adoptive mom who met Matthew and Maia at their orphanage a few months before Maia's adoption). My heart nearly broke as I held my sweet boy close and reassured him that I would not let anyone hurt him like that again and that I love him so much. Oh, to think of what he has endured...