So, I've found myself officially back in school. Okay, that doesn't exactly mean what it says there :). As part of our pay-off-the-damn-debt-plan, I've taken on a few extra jobs recently.
This summer, as most of you know, I have been working in the box office at The Cove, the baseball park here in town, selling tickets for a couple hours most games. Which has been great, and fun, and well... just cool to say that I worked in baseball for a summer. Will I do it again next year? Ya, Ronald and I haven't talked about it, but probably.
In addition to that, I've also started being a teachers assistant at a local Christian school... hence the 'finding myself back in school' part.
All that to say, I'm now back in the realm of kids, and listening to them talk. This year it's 4th and 5th graders, which is quite different from my normal 4 and 5 year old's, but still sort of cool.
So I thought I'd share. Last Friday, they were talking about what their parents do for a living [to fully understand the word "livelihood"]. And most of them were like, "my dad does this", or "my dad does that", but then there were two kids [one boy and one girl], and the one said, "My dad works at Notre Dame and my mom is an exterminator"... the other said, "My mom fixes computers"....
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And I wanted to high five both those awesome momma's. First, for showing their kids that if they want, they can be more than a stay-at-home parent. And then also, for pushing into a career role mostly set aside for men. Rock on ladies. I think it's awesome. Breaking the gender barriers.
-mrp-
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