What do you want to be?
I want to be so many things. First and foremost I want to be a great mother, wife, daughter, sister and friend. I want to be a good colleague, I want to be a fantastic photographer… then we got to the shallow I want to be rich, I want to be skinnier…
There are so many ways to be.
I often watch my kids play and I sit there and wonder, what do they want to be when they grow up.
Molly is too young to really have any knowledge about different careers and professions but she is social and has a zest for life, a mind of her own and she is quite the little actress. Grace is the sensitive, sensible, hard working girl and has an amazing imagination. She is at the stage where she is starting to talk about what she wants to be. Every day she just wants to be a gymnast and I spends a lot of her days upside down. She flucturates between wanting to be a photographer like mummy, to a chef… just like in master chef and then she has days where she sits up in her room and write books because she wants to be an author.
But to be honest, their profession and career is not what makes them who they are. What else will they be?
As a mother I help shape them into the person they will become, so what do I really wish for?
I want them to be polite
I want them to be kind and considerate
I want them to be brave
I want them to be hard working
But most important of all are the 2 H’s
I want them to be healthy, and
I want them to be happy.
There are just so many ways to be so although I have so many wished for my kids the reality is I just want them to be them, I don’t want them to be anything but who they are, I want them to be true to themselves. I don’t want them to be what someone else wants them to be, I want them to be what is right for the. The best way to be, is to be yourself.
My gorgeous little girls, you are growing up too fast and I am delighted that you both take such a joy in having me around. I love that it is important for you that I watch you do gymnastics 10+ hours a week, I love that you want to sit next to me and watch tv, even though I often sit busy working on my laptop. You just want to be near me. I love that you both want to be like me because I know in a couple of years it is the last person you want to be. I love that you want to stand next to me in the kitchen watch me bake a cake and be the first to lick the bowl when I am finished. So when you ask me what I want to be… I want to be the one who help you both create happy memories, I want to be the one to give you a safe and happy childhood. I want to be the one you sometimes hate because I say no, but in years to come you will realise that by saying no I was the one who helped guide you down the right path.
So what do I want to be…. I just want to be me, your mummy.
This month I am linking to Annie Smith and I just have to urge you to go and read her post and look at her beautiful photos.
