What do you wanna be when you grow up?

One day a few years back the girls and I were sitting in the kitchen talking about what they wanted to be when they grew up. Finally, after it was decided that princess was the ideal job, one of my daughters asked," Mommy what do you want to be when you grow up?" and I said, " Well, I always wanted to be a nurse. I started nursing school a few times but then had to stop going to have babies." Then one of my insightful children said," So, why don't you go back to school, Mommy?" I hemmed and hawed using the excuse of " oh, Emmie is so young, and I will go back when your all in school, maybe, etc...and then the words that will stick with me forever came out of my evil scientist genius child, " So, when you have babies you can't go to school?" and it hit me like a punch in the face...what am I teaching my daughters? How dare I help them to believe they can't do anything! I signed up for school that week. That was in Fall of "07. I finished all of my prerequisites in the Summer of '09 and was put on the waitlist to get into the nursing program at our local community college. I finally got the email last week that I am the 5th alternate for the Fall '10 term, if 5 people out of 47 drop, I'm in. It seems really likely I will be starting nursing school in the fall.

Every day when I pick Avery up from school in my scrubs she says, " Mommy are you a nurse yet?" I can not wait until the day I can say, " Yes, Avery I am!," You see, we as mommies are on stage, with an audience that watches our every move. We are teaching 24/7 and we can never forget. We are teaching our sons how to treat woman by the way we allow them to treat us. We are teaching our daughters how to survive in the world as woman by the examples we lead. I want mine to be God fearing, strong, independent woman who are okay when Adam and I are gone. I want them to know they can do anything they put their minds to as long as they set goals and work toward them. It may take them 33 years and 4 babies later to get there but they can. I can too!