Almost Over.

The wait is almost over.

I should know on Friday if I will be joining the 2015 Nursing class at TVCC.

This has been the most brutal waiting process, ever. I applied in September. That is a long time to wait on a dream come true.

My stomach as been in knots for the last 2 weeks. I can't sleep and I keep my email open at all times just waiting on the news. I have been dreaming of being a nurse since my last semester in college.

I sat out for a college career that would land me in medical school and I was determined to become a pediatrician. Somewhere along the way I got distracted and ended up married my last semester of college and a doctor telling me that my chances of having children were slim to none and I better get started.

So I settled for working on a teaching certificate and becoming a mom. One of these decisions was the best I have ever made, the other, not so much. I did the teaching gig for 3 years and while I loved the kids my experience was awful. Every year that I taught I had a major life changing situation happen. I think that was God's way of telling me, nope this isn't for you.

Shortly after the teaching ended the office job begin. Let me just say, that's not my gig either. That's all I will say about that.

Realizing that I would never be happy until I was working in a hospital, I finished the prereq's needed to apply to nursing school. I know me, and I know my love for having a family and going back to attempt medical school now, 10 years later is not in the cards. So, I will gladly take on nursing school and obtain the same dream.

My last semester of college I was a child life therapist intern on the PICU and oncology floor of the children's hospital in Lubbock. That was by far the greatest experience of my life. I might have cried every day as I pulled out of the parking garage, but the days where I watched a little one do their last round of chemo, ever, priceless. That is when I knew this was exactly where I belonged.

God, however, had different plans for me the last 5 years. I like to think He was waiting to give me the opportunity to chase my dreams, His timing is everything.

Now, as I sit in prayer for the next few days and wait on that email, I hope this is His timing and His will. I pray that I am about to finally accomplish my dreams and use my career to minister to those I come into contact with along the way!