Success!!

I am happy to say that I just took the math placement exam and I am ready to enroll in my first math class in SIX years. It doesn't seem like that long since I graduated but it kinda crept up on me. It is funny because when I turned 18 I was so insistent on finding reasons why I appeared older than I am. I am not sure at what point I started trying to justify the time passing and convince people I am not as old as I seem. It really doesn't seem that long when your living it, but try to convince a teenager that 23(1 month and two days from 24) is not old. I don't know where the time has gone. I am wondering what I have done with that approx. 2190 days. I definitely don't feel like I have been doing anything for very long. Of course, I am a mom and that makes each day seem like 1/2 a day. I did go to school for a while, but mostly I am just taking care of my family and being "alive". It kinda seems like I should have accomplished more.

I remember looking out from graduation and being asked what I was hoping to be doing in 5 years. This is not what I thought. I am happy with some of the changes, marriage, kids, a house. These things make me happy and are far better than the plans I had in mind six years ago. I have definitely changed quite a bit in six years, I think for the better as well.

I hope that these plans for nursing school and midwifery lead me down a path of fulfillment from my career as well as preserving the presence I have in my family as a mom and wife. I am looking forward to my math class with both fear and resolve. I may be older than 90% of my class, but I have better reasons for being there and more determination than anyone :) Today I will sign up for the first semester in a long journey to career fulfillment! Yay for reaching for my dreams and becoming my personal best!