Aunt Carol recently asked on her blog what everyone wanted to be when they grew up.

Up until 3rd or 4th grade I wanted to be a astronaut. I was in the Young Astronauts Club at school, and dreamed of going to Space Camp. Then, I found out you needed to be good at math (which I wasn't) to be an astronaut. After that, I decided I wanted to be a paleontologist. I still wouldn't mind doing that, actually.

In high school, I discovered I was good a two things:

1) I was a good public speaker
2) I was good at talking people into doing what I wanted them to do

Communications, with an emphasis in Public Relations, seemed like a good fit for me in college. So for the brief year I was there, that was my major. I had the thought in the back of my mind that I would work for Disney World behind the scenes. (During my senior year in high school I met a man through my chorus teacher who coordinated performances by different groups and special guests at the parks. His job looked like a blast and he loved it. He had had majored in Communications, and suggested that would be a good path for me if I wanted to do a similar job.)

But then I met James and started on the career path I'm on now. I always knew I wanted to be a mom, and luckily that's worked out pretty well. ;D Becoming a preschool teacher was a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Haooily, it's a job I love and would have never picked for myself way back when.

It's funny to me to hear what the girls want to be, because it's such a reflection of their personalities. Madeline wants to be a babysitter. She loves children and really has a knack with them, even at her age. Isabella wants to be a baker and open he own bakery called, naturally, Isabella's Bakery. She loves to help in the kitchen, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if she went that route someday.

It's sad to say, but I have no idea what James wanted to be when he was little. I know he loved to build things and figure out how things worked. He would have made a great engineer!