On My Way...

Well, the MAT is behind me!  For good!  Thankfully, I made above what I needed for grad school.  I was torn between doing a little happy dance in the room or crying tears of joy...either way they would have thought I was crazy.  So I refrained from doing either.  I have mailed in my applications and reference forms and applied for student loans.  So it looks like I'm on my way.

And while I'm excited, I have been a ball of emotions this week.  When you've invested over nine years of your life and energy in one place, it's hard to leave.  I'm down to about three and a half months and it's getting tough.  I'm so excited about the future, but I'm also terrified.  I'm excited to meet new clients and forge ahead with a new business, but I'm sad to leave the clients who have meant so much to me, most of whom I've known for the past nine years.  And I am going to hate telling them goodbye and figuring out the right time to let them know I'm leaving.  I'm excited to move to a new city, but I'm sad to leave my family and friends.  So it has been a very up and down week.  But I am on my way...

I have a lot to do in the short time I have left.  And I want to get it all done.  However, I don't want to miss anything along the way.  I'm a workaholic by nature, so it's hard for me sometimes to stop and smell the roses.  I either work so hard I don't take the time or I'm so tired I just hole up at home and sleep.  But I'm learning.  With age hopefully comes wisdom, and I'm learning to balance it all.

I'm so excited where life is taking me and so thankful that God has prepared each and every step.  I'm so not where I thought I would be at my age.  I knew I'd be married with kids and working at Baddour the rest of my life.  But God evidently has different plans.  Plans I'm learning to accept and love.  Here I am single, starting a business, starting grad school and moving...all by myself.  But I can't wait to see where it all leads and to see how it all turns out.

I'm on my way...