AuburnChick's Adventures

Having children who are almost adults truly is fun sometimes.

I especially like the fact that I can have grown-up conversations with my chicklets.

Rooster is 17.  He’ll be 18 the end of May.

These days, he’s keenly interested in politics.  He and Chicky will be able to vote, for the first time, in November’s election, and he couldn’t be happier.

Thus, he’s made it his mission to learn as much as he can about the candidates, their positions, and the issues themselves.

Rooster isn’t one to jump on a bandwagon without doing his own research.

Once he learns something, he’ll talk about it.

And talk.

And talk.

And talk.

Now, you must understand that while I do enjoy American government and history, my brain is on overload with all of the things I am learning how to do in this teaching profession of mine.

So, a lot of what Rooster says, though he tries to dumb it down for me (a bit humbling if you ask me) goes over my head.

Still, I listen, nod my head, and smile.  I’m content with listening to him share.

Saturday evening, Rooster, the Mr., and I went out to dinner.  As we talked (mostly about politics), Rooster said, “You know.  I really like political science.  My third and fourth plans are to maybe study political science or law.  I would even like to be a congressman.  Either that or go into the military.”

My boy, you see, has a Plan C and a Plan D.

When I said as much to him, he said, “Mama, there’s a lot I want to do, but I can’t do everything.”

What an aha moment, eh?

I told him that unfortunately, life is about making choices like this.  We can try to do as much as we can, but I don’t know that we ever can do ALL that we want.

Our conversation got me to thinking about the things I’ve wanted to do and the things I’d like to do.

Things I wanted to do and actually got to do include:

• Staying at home to raise my children
• Working part-time from home
• Working part-time outside of the home (I didn’t really want this, but it was necessary and was a good compromise)
• Being a room mom when my kids were little (there was a lot of competition for this coveted role)
• Go back to college
• Earn a college degree
• Become a teacher

It’s a great list to look at, but there are still things I want to do, including:

• Learn to play an instrument…probably the violin
• Open my own yarn store
• Work from home (if the yarn store thing didn’t work out)
• Write a book
• Attend Sock Summit
• Meet the Yarn Harlot and Cookie A
• Attend a Dancing With the Stars or So You Think You Can Dance finale
• Be a contestant on Dancing With the Stars (course that means I need to become famous for something before they’ll invite me)
• Visit Israel

Yeah.  I know.  Lots of plans.  Guess I have Plans E-M covered, eh?

God is probably chuckling right now.

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