What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up?

I am currently studying Child Development. When people used to ask me what I wanted to do with my degree, I would tell them all about how cool it would be to work in Psycho-social Rehabilitation or be a Child Life Specialist. Sometimes I would tell people I was really close to what I really wanted to do: be a mother. Why was I so bashful about this? Because we live in a world today where being a stay-at-home-mom is looked down upon. Lately I have had a change of heart toward the way I feel about what I really want to do with my life and my time. Being a mother to God's precious children is the most noble thing that I could possibly do. And even more importantly, I know it is what He wants me to do. Now, if you ask me what I want to do with my education, I will tell you openly and proudly, "I want to be a mommy." And that is the honest truth. I love this quote by Marjorie Hinckley:
“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. 
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. 
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. 
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. 
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. 
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”