Yesterday, while I was puttering around in the kitchen all day cooking curries, baking roti and currant roll and listening to Johnny Cash sing hymns, I started thinking back to who I was five years ago, and I was amazed at some of the differences. This reminds me of those lists we all used to make on Facebook of 25 random things about yourself, but here are a few lists to mark all the changes:
Ten things I am now (but wasn't 5 years ago)
1) A wife
2) A Master of Arts
3) A Master of Christian Studies
4) An aunt (x3!)
5) A mother
6) A teaching assistant
7) A resident of Vancouver, BC
8) A home chef
9) A member of St. John's Anglican Church, Richmond, BC
10) A locavore and Community Supported Agriculture subscriber
Five things I was then (but am not now)
1) An inner-city teacher
2) A student
3) A resident of NYC
4) The resident of a fifth-floor walk up apartment
5) A commuter (one hour there, one hour back, five days a week; sure don't miss that!)
Five things that I was then, am now, and probably always will be
1) A reader
2) A writer
3) An optimist
4) A Christian feminist
5) A city-dweller
Goodness, you list sounds a lot like mine! Well, except that I'm not an aunt (my husband and I are both oldest children), and a few other little things. But yeah: five years ago I was commuting an hour each way to university, eating hot pockets and cheese strings, and thinking that mothering sounded like a dull and sad vocation. Goodness, how things change! And I'm glad for all of them.
ReplyDeleteFunny enough, my husband and I are also oldest children, but perhaps older than you. That and the youngest in my family got started early. :) Actually, I'm an aunt x3, I forgot one on the other side... oops! It just keeps changing at this stage in the game.
DeleteAnd you're right, the changes are great. I have a little daily calendar above the kitchen sink that I haven't turned the page on since November because it says: "It is in changing that things find purpose. -Heraclitus" I need this reminder every day. :)