My Grown-Up Dreams

What did you dream about, when you dreamt about being all grown up and having your own grown-up life?

I have a few snippets of childhood and adolescent dreams still in my head. Some of these are heavily influenced by television and movies!

* I dreamt that I would grow up to be like Mary Tyler Moore, not in the "Dick Van Dyke Show" wife-and-mother incarnation, but as the single Mary Richards in
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show." There were, however, elements of Laura Petrie in my Mary Tyler Moore fantasy, particularly that I would look that cute in leggings and that I'd be a really good dancer. Of course, my current life is darn close to Mary Tyler Moore's TV life. I live in an apartment in the Twin Cities, work, have interesting and funny friends, wear hats which I throw in the air for fun, and I'm spunky and long-legged and funny when I don't mean to be. And my dating life is, um, interesting.

* I dreamt that I would be like Cinderella and dance with the Prince, who would then sweep me off my feet, put me in a carriage, and make me happy forever. Somehow having the first name "Sabrina," which sounded elegant and mysterious, made me more likely to become the Princess. I know it sounds weird, but I did feel special, having such a pretty name. In fact, I told my best friend Joanne that I was a princess from Rumania, when we first met at age seven!

Ahem.

* I dreamt that I would be a wife and mother, do lots of art projects with my kids, like my Nana did with us girls, read a lot of books, learn how to cook, explore the outdoors with the kids, sing to them all the time, bake a lot, and that my kids would laugh a lot. This pretty much all came true, although the cooking skills could use some polishing.

* I dreamt that I would be a sophisticated, elegant, mysterious, and brilliant single woman, and that I would go out to dinner in a big city very late at night with a handsome gentleman who thought I was the most amazing creature ever born. After dinner, we would dance (note that dancing features in most of these dreams), just the two of us, on a balcony high above the city, and there would be jazz music playing, and we would have no cares in the world and nowhere else we had to be. Sometimes in the fantasy we would also go swimming at night in a pool in this very tall building, with a view of the city skyline. I think we would smoke cigarettes too. And after swimming, of course there would be more dancing, swooning, and kissing, and I would melt into his arms. That's the dream that would never end.

Am I a romantic girl, or what?!

Sigh...

* Oh, and there's another one I remember really distinctly: I was going to be a very strong, competent Arctic woman who trained sled dogs! I would live way up north somewhere with a whole bunch of wonderful, smart dogs, and I would have a boyfriend or husband who visited me. I would be very independent, and very happy, and I would wear a lot of parkas, snow boots, layers of clothing, big hats, and no, there's no dancing in this one. Sorry.

Take a look at my dog Polly with her sled dog face and tell me what you think!!!


Ok, I 'fessed up to my girly dreams. What were yours? (girl or boy dreams)