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July’s Blog Challenge

Each month a new challenge will be posted. Once you have completed the challenge, add your post to that month’s Blog Challenge Discussion.
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July’s Blog Challenge: {Childhood Ambitions}  Write a blog post about your childhood dreams, wishes & ambitions.  What did you dream of becoming?  What did you sincerely think you would do with your life?  Where are you know along that road?  How do you feel about where you are?

Throughout our lives we are asked this simple little question… “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  It’s deceptively simple though, because in reality, this is not an easy question to answer.  Depending on your age,  you may want to be a fireman, doctor, nurse, teacher, or veterinarian.  For me though, there was always one thing that I always said I wanted to be, that was a mom.

To me, the most important and best job in the world was to be a mom!  I wanted to have 4 babies, two boys and two girls.  I knew I would breastfeed them, because that’s what moms do.  As I got older the desire to be a mom never went away.  Instead how I wanted to raise my children changed and I added new philosophies to my motherdom, but I always wanted to be a mom.

I’ve been a mom for 16 years now.  I only have two sons, so my dream of having 2 of each didn’t quite come about.  I am happy with my job as a mom.  It really has been the best most important job of my life.  And I’ve had plenty of different jobs other than being a mom, but being a mom is the number one job.

I think I’d still like to have one more baby, preferably a little girl, but I just don’t know if I’m really wanting to go through all of that again.  The boys are both teenagers and are practically all grown up, so if I did have another baby, they’d be basically an only child.  I really don’t like the idea of that.  So more than likely my job as a mom is almost over.  I’ll be retiring from that position, so then I will have to figure out what I want to do from that point on.

The other things I wanted to do besides being a mom is to be a writer.  Which is probably why I’m blogging.  I love writing, and this is really my only outlet for writing at this point.  I’ve talked about writing books, but lack the confidence in myself to really try it.  So blogging is all the writing I really do.  Other than writing, I’ve wanted to sell arts and crafts, have a book/jewelry store, and lately I”ve thought about being a professional poker player.  LOL!  But all these are really just dreams that I don’t know if they could even come true.  I’ve never focused on anything other than “just surviving” and being a mom.

I think, that if I could do anything at all, in the whole world, and get paid for it, I’d want to write.  So maybe instead of just having that in my head as something that I’ve always wanted to do, but never thought I could, I should just do it!  What would it be like if I wrote a story and people loved it, bought it, and wanted more??  I think that would be almost as fantastic as being a mom has been!

So what do YOU want to be when you grow up??

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