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Tomorrow is the big day!!!!

Why Georgia?

I don't know! Throughout this whole process, I have come to realize that it is not MY plan what-so-ever. Georgia Southern was the first school that I found after I discovered Child Life Specialist. I never thought I'd end up there, though! I emailed the dean of the program and she was the SWEETEST thing ever! I had given her my information so she called me and her exact words were, "Ya'll come down and visit us!" She gave me an idea of what the rest of my schooling would look like. Things just kinda happened! We went to visit in November and fell in love with the town and the campus. I like to compare the town to Charleston only more spread out and lots more cool places to eat. :) The town revolves around the school. The school has almost 20,000 students--quite a bit bigger than EIU. I applied, got accepted, had orientation the beginning of July, and there we go!

I LOVE how things happened so fast. I was worried sick about school and what I was going to do for so long. When I finally started to relax and get the mind set that whatever happens, happens--things happened! I have never been more excited about anything in my life and to feel such a peace about it makes it 100 times better!!!

I have 3 full days left. One of those days I'll be at a Taylor Swift concert. The time is coming fast! The goodbyes are getting harder but knowing that I'll be home for a week in 3 1/2 months makes that a little easier. I haven't told my little girls "bye" yet--not ready for that one! :(

Move in day will be next.. :( :)

Counting down...

I'm 16 days away from moving day!! I am so excited--although it's becoming a bittersweet feeling. I'm starting this because I want to be able to look back when I'm done with school and see how far I've come. Also, because there are several of you that want to know what I'm up to! :)

I thought I would start the first post by sharing WHY I am moving. Since I was 16, I wanted to be a nurse. I did Health Occ. my senior year and LOVED it! I wanted so bad to move out of my parents house and move away to "get the full college experience". Well, Someone had bigger plans for me. Throughout this entire process I've gained a whole new outlook on how everything happens in God's time. He has a plan and just because it doesn't happen as fast as we think or the way we think it should...it will happen when He's ready for it to happen. Every plan I'd ever made to move away and go to school away from home--fell through. I began to get extremely frustrated. I had a counselor at Lake Land tell me if I wanted to go to nursing school I was going to have to go a total of 6 years. I knew that wasn't the case but I didn't care. I got mad, came home and told my mom I was changing my major. This upset my dad greatly. My dad to this day thinks I should double major and still do nursing. Ha! So I changed my major to Early Childhood Education. I love kids so there must be something in that area I can do. I loved Kermit's Cove in high school!! I did it two years and have the most amazing memories from it!! While in one of my ECE classes last fall, my instructor was telling us about how over the weekend she went to visit a little boy at Riley's Hospital in INDY. She told us that there was this lady she talked to and her job was a Child Life Specialist. Basically what she did was explain to children procedures that they would be having so that they understand a little better. My teacher then began to tell us a little more about a Child Life Specialist and then it clicked. This.Was.It. This is what I'm supposed to do. It's PERFECT for me! It's smack dab in the middle of nursing and teaching! I'll get to work in a hospital with kids and teach them!

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WHY GEORGIA? stay tuned....