ACCEPTANCE!!!

So, I have just found out that I have been accepted at a local University for their Fall 2009 semester! I am so excited and will even qualify for a small scholarship! I am on my way, FINALLY at the age of 29, towards my career!

The Ironic thing about this school is I grew up across the street from it for 19 years. I have so many memories of playing with friends in the field, riding my bike through the corridors and trying to avoid getting scolded for doing so. Playing in front of the chapel at the college across the street from my babysitters house after school everyday. I never would have imagined that I would be a student there many years later.

A lot has happened between then and now. Then I was a young girl (around my daughter's age) and wanted to be an Archeologist when I grew up and now I am planning to become a School Counselor/Art Therapist. In between those years I became a teenage mom that managed to finish high school and raise my daughter on my own (with help from mom) and marry into an abusive relationship and go through a terrible divorce and struggle with custody arrangements with my son. Through all those hard times I have grown to be the woman I am now and I have come to "accept" myself and work towards the me I am destined to be. The person that God has blessed me with the talents to become.

So, not only is it a thrill that I got "accepted" into this University that holds so many childhood memories for me, but also I have learned to "accept" myself along the way, over these troublesome years of my early adulthood. I am so excited to create the memories that are yet to come with this "acceptance"...