{"id":4638,"date":"2014-11-21T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T22:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:49:15","slug":"my-journey-into-my-family-of-grandmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2014\/11\/21\/my-journey-into-my-family-of-grandmas\/","title":{"rendered":"My journey into my family of grandmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

What will I be when I grow up? It’s a familiar question. As a happy and energetic farm girl in Iowa, I frequently imagined what my life would look like as an adult.<\/p>\n

While I helped my mother with chores or ran around exploring the woods and the farm buildings, I dreamed about how I might run a household if I ever were a mother some day. I looked forward to when I would be able to do adult things and make my own choices. I saw myself acting a lot like my own mother and grandmother: gardening, cooking and baking in a big farmhouse and offering care to a lot of happy and playful children.<\/p>\n

I also dreamed about being a teacher, a writer or maybe a missionary in another country. I did have a vague idea that I might like to be a Catholic sister, based largely on my love of films like \u201cThe Sound of Music\u201d and \u201cSister Act,\u201d but my childhood dreaming never included the picture of me actually being a nun.<\/p>\n

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What remained a constant in my childhood thoughts about being an adult, however, was an experience of relating to a large, loving family. This makes sense. I never knew any Catholic sisters as a child, but…<\/p>\n

[This is the beginning of my latest column for the online newspaper,\u00a0Global Sisters Report.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Continue reading here<\/a>.]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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My journey into my family of grandmas<\/a><\/blockquote>