When I grow up...

The other day, Elora turned to me and said, "Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a teacher." I asked her why she wanted to be a teacher and she explained to me how nice they were and that they teach the ABC Song. Prior to that day, I also remembered her telling me, "When I grow up, I want to be a Mommy because then I can take care of real babies too." Draven then turned to me and said, "Do you know what I want to be when I grow up? I want to have a Ninja Store so I can sell ninja weapons and teach good guys how to be ninjas to fight all the bad guys everywhere."

Although my children are not expressing a desire to be a doctor, our nation's peace keeper, or the President, I stop and think to myself that I must be doing o.k. as a parent because my children have a desire to do good in this world. I mean, Draven could have said he wanted to be a bad ninja to fight all the good people, right? To be honest, I am one of those mother's that regularly criticizes my own parenting skills and fears how bad my children will turn out due to my parenting inadequacy. However, days like this where Draven and Elora express what "good" kind of people they want to grow up to be, is one where I just sit back and smile reminding myself that life is great.