Out of the blue: "Mom?"
"Yes?"
"Someday I want to be a teacher."
"Okay." (Thinking, Hey, sounds good. He must enjoy learning.)
"I'm going to be a music teacher."
Me, with a smile: "Oh, good. Then you can teach something you enjoy."
"Yeah. I'm going to teach my students, then they can be in my orchestra. I'm going to be a orchestra leader, too."
I think to myself that sounds pretty ambitious and kind of cool.
"I'm going to be a composer too. I'll write the music, then I'll teach my orchestra and they can play the music I wrote. Won't that be cool, Mom?"
Yes. Yes, son, that will be cool. Very cool. I love to hear this, living out their dreams out loud. I can't wait to see it.
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Adding later: Loving Husband's reaction, "Think this kid has control issues?"
Me, after I stopped laughing: "No. Not at all. And he does NOT get them from his mother." At all.
Loving Husband is such a sentimental guy, isn't he?
1 comment:
So sweet.
After reading about Mr. Edwards in Little House. I explained to Cate what the word bachelor means. A few days later she tells me after college I am "going to find a "Chinese bachelor" and marry him. I love those conversations where she is trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Right now it is a mommy and a teacher.
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