When I Grow Up...

When we are driving in the car, String Cheese often brings up her future. There is often discussion of motherhood with questions that are a little vague and hard for me to answer. She asks, "What will it be like when I'm a Mom?" and "What will I think when I'm a Mom?"

She likes to ask about marriage and who she might marry. She is quite set on a certain young man, Bryan Joseph. And Deedle has decided she will marry his older brother, Bradley. Here is SC with Bryan a few years ago. "Can I marry my cousin?" "Is Bryan (Joseph) my cousin?" (No, he's not her cousin and, at this point I definitely approve. ::whew:: )

She likes to talk about what she will be when she grows up. She has a lot of questions. "Can I be a mom?" "Do I have to have another job?" "What if I don't know how to do the job I want to do?"

Saturday the conversation started again while we were taking a drive. Deedle came up with the idea that she would like to be a candy maker. Her only concern, "What if I don't know how to make the wrappers?"

SC then said, "I think I would like to make dresses. Is that something I could do? I could be a dressmaker? And design my own dresses? And have my own dress shop? Can you teach me how to do that?"

I discussed with the girls their concerns and expressed excitement. Loumy had been listening in and kept trying to interject, but they weren't giving him much opportunity. Finally I quieted the girls and said, "Okay, Loumy, sorry that you didn't get a turn to talk. What did you want to say?"

With his eyebrows raised, he looked as though he had just come up with an absolutely brilliant plan for his life. "When I grow up, " he said excitedly. "I want to be a skateboard guy and a Dad and a' old woman!"