Dreamers Welcome

My university's motto is 'Dreamers Welcome."

I accomplished one of my dreams this past Saturday.

I graduated with a Bachelors in the Science of Nursing 

from Northern Kentucky Univeristy. 

After many years, a lot of sacrifice, a wedding, and two children later I am a college graduate.

I am blessed to cross one more thing off my bucket list:

Get Married to the love of my life
Have children

Buy a house with a large back yard

Plant a tree

Impact someone's life

Graduate college

Leave the country

Go on an African safari

Visit Paris

Donate my first paycheck as a nurse to St. Jude

Make money taking pictures

Understand organic chemistry

Hike a mountain

Run a marathon

Go white water rafting

Go snorkeling

Shoot a gun

See the seven wonders

Go to carnival in Brazil

Take my girls to Disney World

Visit all 50 states

Be a big sister

Milk a cow


I am so thankful that my children will know that through perseverance and hard work anything can be accomplished. I hope they know that all the hours, days, and years I spent achieving this dream was more about them and providing a life for them than it was ever about me. That they were my drive. It wasn't all just my hard work though. It was with the help of my very supportive husband, an awesome mother and mother in law that helped me with my girls, friends that gave me words of encouragement, my peers that helped me study and were a support in itself because we were all after the same dream, a best friend next door that provided a quiet study environment, and many other factors.

I made it. I graduated from college.

I'm really excited about Saturday being the start to a new chapter in our lives. In so many ways it feels like this season in our lives resembles spring; birth to new beginnings, new dreams,  and a lot of life to enjoy.