Brian, I'm moved by your story and will keep you in my prayers. We all know how tough it is for good men once they hit the court system. The odds are stacked against you, and thus against your children and your futures. Open up with the community here; keep telling your story, share your good times with the kids, and get creative.
Every post can bring you back to that stupid little art project in grade 7 that you should have spent more time on, or that you never handed in. None of those little projects were stupid, I see now, because they were training on how to produce little packages of beauty... Your posts don't have to be marathons. Take a picture of your kids being silly and post it with a little blurb about how much you love them.
The sky is the limit for what you can do here. You will see people raking in thousands of dollars a year/month/week/day, and you can do it too.
Welcome to steemit!