We are actually having an exchange with Sigma Chi this month with this exact theme. I can only imagine what those boys have planned!
In 10 years, I will be 29. I will hopefully be married to a wonderful fraternity man. We will have spent our early days of marriage traveling and enjoying eachother. I don't want to set too much a future because I intend to plan it with my future husband. Therefore, number of kids, where we will live, and such will have to be a mutual selection. Because whatever makes him happy is something that I will strive to attain in our marriage.
But in an ideal picture, I would be a highly educated mother.
I would have worked intensely for the first few years of my career . As I worked my way up the advertising/business...(I'm only 2nd year...I still have time!)...ladder I will begin to balance family and work. Hopefully having the ability to do conferencing at home. I will drive a suburban, pick up the kids from soccer practice, and make wonderful homecooked meals for my family. I will have freshly baked cookies or brownies when my children get home on Fridays. The laundry will be in the machine while I go shop for groceries and play tennis at our country club with old college sorority sisters and such. My children will be a very integral part of my life, yet I will set aside a bit of time each day to have a glass of wine with my husband and let us share our days or just relax. My family will go to holiday parties and my boys will "go over to Bobby's house" after school on those random days. Gosh, this is sounding oh so cliche....
This is the life of most of the mothers where I grew up, so it's set the standard I suppose. Then again, fate could have me on a farm in Denmark with a husband who raises dairy cows. Who knows? I just want to look back and say that I never regretted a thing.
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