Real Adults

Over the next two months, my life will dramatically change from anything I've ever known. This eminent shifting has really started to become real to me this past week. For so long, just getting through school has consumed my time and my thought. My "future" has always seemed far away, somewhere much farther down the road.As I prepare to enter my last week of Undergrad classes however, that ever distant "future" seems incredibly close. 

Thus far, most of my life has been relatively predictable and planned (perhaps with the exception of getting married at age 20, but even that wasn't entirely unexpected). I was graduated from high school, got into college, got married, and now, I prepare to be graduated from college. What makes this approaching time so thrilling, yet daunting, is the ability to now CHOOSE what I want to do, and there really isn't only one correct answer. 

I've joked a lot lately that after graduation, my husband, Nick, and I will finally be "real adults". While I said it in jest, in many ways, this statement in true. I'm gaining a greater understanding and appreciation for this powerful blessing. Life is all about choices. Sometimes these choices are really hard, sometimes really exciting, and sometimes they are both hard and exciting. As we prepare to enter our "real adulthood", I feel both the excitement and the difficulty, but I also feel gratitude that I even have the opportunity to make such choices. 

I am incredibly eager to see what the next year has in store for our family. While I don't know most of the details, I'm starting to see shapes and hints of what is to come. 

And it is going to be good...