What I want to be when I grow up...

From the ripe old age of 8 my dad started teaching me the art of photography. From F-stops to apertures, enlarging and developing, he showed me all. In 4th grade I remember writing that I wanted to be a photographer when I grow up. Then as the years went by I wanted to be different things. In middle school it was a teacher. Then in 9th grade a peds nurse, then just a nurse...too many shots for little ones...then a preschool teacher when I graduated from high school, which I got to do that & decided maybe that wasn't what I really wanted to be after all. So again as the years have gone by being a wife and mother I have thought what DO I want to be when I grow up?? I have thought about nursing school, hair school, dental hygienist...in the fall of 2007 I was going to go to school for pre-architecture at ITT Tech! I was REALLY excited about that but then our sweet little Ryan came along. I am REALLY happy about that. I would still love to go into drafting someday but right now my mind is back in the days when I was 8 & 9. Going on excursions with my dad & our cameras to wherever the road would lead us and take picture after picture. I have since forgotten which dial is the F-stop and which is the aperture, the enlarger is covered by a sheet in my stamping room with expired chemicals in the drawer next to it. The world of photography is a much different place these days with digital, which in some ways seems to make things easier, but I REALLY want to learn it all again!! And I am excited about it!!! So I think maybe this is what I want to be when I grow up...for real...