career talk

Readers, I gave up. After taking two hours to force myself through half of one Contracts essay, I called it a day. It wasn't happening and I was getting more frustrated with myself by the minute.

I IMed my husband, and found out he was planning to leave work a little early. Perfect. We packed Red Wiggly and her leash into the car, put on our walking hats, and picked up Nathaniel together. From there we drove to a local park.

Nathaniel regularly asks to go on "family walks." We try to go as often as we can. We all enjoy it. Today the weather was perfect, with a warm breeze, and we walked through the park.

While on the swingset, Nathaniel unexpectedly mused about his future career aspirations.

"When I grow up, I will be a man." We agreed.

"But now I am a boy." We agreed again.

"I will be a teacher!"

We were bemused, that being his first indication of any sort of career awareness. We told him that if he wanted to be a teacher, a teacher was a fine thing to be.

He mulled over the idea of "being" something. I think it was a new concept. A second later he declared, "I will be a 'struction man."

A logical choice for a child who knows more about construction equipment than I do, but he looked unfinished. He mulled over his options more, and then appeared to reach a satisfactory conclusion.

"Mama, Daddy, I will be a caboose!"

It sounds a heck of a lot more fun than being a lawyer right now, that's for sure.

Comments

[CM]

Cute.
My brother, as the story goes, used to say he wanted to be Kermit the Frog when he grew up.

Good luck with the studying...