It started with her telling me that when she grows up, she wants to be a mommy. I explained that this was a great thing, but that she could be both a mommy AND have some sort of career if she wanted. The result of this was having her explain to me several weeks later, "Mommy, did you know that you could be a mommy AND a magician???"
Hey, it's good to have goals...
Fast forward a month or two later, Pumpkin asked, "Mommy, when you were a little girl, what did you want to be?"
"A doctor", I answered, not really being truthful, but figuring it was as good an answer as any.
"But you decided to just be a mommy instead?"
'Just be a mommy'. Ugh. I began lecturing her on how I am not 'just a mommy', and also how I could have been a doctor too, (as if!), but that I wanted to focus on my children and blah blah blah blah was all she heard as she tuned out to admire something shiny.
Fast forward another month or two, Pumpkin was asking why Daddy was at work.
'Well, someone's gotta pay for all this shit', was the gist of my reply. Then to revisit the discussion from the month prior, I got into how in some families, both parents have to work, and added how lucky we were that we could afford for me to leave my old job so that I could be home with Pumpkin and Chichi.
Pumpkin replied, "Well I think that you still have a job to do."
Beaming with delight that Pumpkin was recognizing the work involved in taking care of her and her sister, I asked, "And what do you believe my job is, Pumpkin?"
"Laundry", she replied matter-of-factly.
Sigh. Magician school is starting to look better and better.
3 comments:
Sounds like my boys.
Magician school doesn't sound half bad... :)
sounds familiar
Great post! I'm laughing so hard. Although it really burns me to hear the 'just a mom' line for real. I kept hammering at my daughters that they had to have a skill or trade or whatever so that they could look after themselves. They bought it, too, and now lead lives of such complexity that it blows my mind. SAHM's forever!
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