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I will have a stick. I will yell at my men…..

 When going through the MOUNDS of paper my son brought home from school from this year, I found this.  It’s priceless.  And it made me think what he thinks my husband does all day at work!  Now I am not a keeper of stuff.  I keep a few things each year per kid.  I’m not going to keep it all.  What will he do with boxes of old colouring pages and math equations?  But this, this is a keeper.   What I want to be when I Grow Up When I grow up I want to be in the army. I want to be in the military because my dad is in the military. I also want to blow stuff up so I can keep our country free. I will train hard to rank up. I will listen to my boss, do parades and shoot from a tank. I will be still at attention. I will have to know to be sneaky. I will have to listen to commands to know what to do. I’ll shoot at targets and exercise. When I’m a sargent I will have a stick. I’ll yell at my men. By (Freckles) So this made me want to write a reply.  One I will keep with it.  And if in fact this is the choice my son makes when he grows up, I will remind myself the kind of mom I wanted to be when I grew up. Because the older he gets the harder I feel like it will be to do this army thing from the Mom’s perspective, and not the wives.  What will happen when I have to let…