I know most of us probably have some talents that are not being used, or at least not used to their fullest extent, now that we are moms. I know I have a few things that I am good at but cannot focus on right now.
What are your talents?
Are you able to use them as much as you'd like?
Do you plan to put them to use again when your kids are older?
Does your hubby know and support your use of those talents?
I'll answer in the morning...so sleepy! ;-)
I can do a donald-duck impersonation!! LOL all the kids love it when I do it at birthday parties---I am an artist-if I had more free time, I would create more sculptures, watercolor paintings etc. I love to play the piano and used to play alot. Thats what i can think of now, if I think of more--I will come back and edit.
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Ballet (classical)- danced with the Miami City Ballet when I was younger and with the Richmond Ballet Theater in college.
I don't ever use that talent b/c it's just not relevant to my life now. I still go to the ballet when I can and toyed with the idea of doing the "Nutcracker" this year as one of the parents at the party, but I'm already away from home too much and didn't want to add weeknight rehearsals into the mix.
I probably won't ever use those skills again, but hope that if we have a little girl she will be interested in taking lessons.
My husband is very proud of my former life and likes to tell anyone who mentions ballet in a 1/2 mile radius that I danced professionally before moving to NY, but I don't know that he would love it if I got back into it. It's a beautiful art, but incredibly time consuming!
Art. I've been drawing since i was a little girl. I have a total of 84 sketch books that are filled cover to cover and span my lifetime. Before having my kids I would always be drawing. With my morning coffee, on work breaks, during lunch, dinner etc I always had a sketch book, a bazillion pens, prencils, and markers on me at all time.
I barely get a chance to do it these days. I try to go on lil mommie trips & Leave the kids with my husband. I go get coffee, grab my smokes and go sit somewhere outside and just draw.
The crappy part is, now that I haven't been drawing that often, I get all pissed off when I try to. It doesn't feel the same anymore. I end up sitting there staring at the blank page and can not do it.
Its actually kinda upsetting lol
I am bilingual. I speak two languages fluently and actually have my certificate through the state to be able to translate in a medical setting. I don't do it though! The pay is not that good and there is no medical or dental plan. I speak spanish all the time to family and friends. I have been known to translate for people in court, doctors office, work, ect. but just never really have put it to use to make any money. :)
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Swimming. I'm one heckuva 'nonracing' swimmer (I can race, but I'm not extraordinary. What I'm particularly good at is ocean swimming, long distance, short, storms, carrying a ton of gear, whatever... it's easier than walking for me). As a kid I've gotten sucked out to sea twice. No worries (since it was just a riptide, not an undertow), 3 or 4 hours later -after exiting the current- I was back on shore. In bootcamp I was one of the 4 people out of the 3000 tested to make level 1 (aka where they drown you or you drown them). Not a lot of call for rescue swimming outside of military applications.
Shooting. Again, not a lot of call for sniping outside of military applications, and there's more than enough men in the specialty that I'm pretty superfluous. ALTHOUGH, in a year or two I'm going to go get requal'd. Just because it's super fun and I haven't done it in ages. I'm going to be terrible, and I have no experience with weapons less than 10 years old. <grin> Which will be AWESOME. ((I really like challenges))
