Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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. 

3 comments:

  1. a real life graduated dreamer...the world needs more of you....congratulations on your hard work.....I was in seminary during the years my kids were your kids age...I know what it takes..have a great holiday from another kentuckian...

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  2. Congratulations! What a huge accomplishment! Good luck in your new career!

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  3. Yay!!! Congratulations!!! You've done an amazing job balancing it all and now you're done! YAY!!!!

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