Retrospect

This morning I went with my hubby's cousin (Drew) and Drew's sweet girlfriend (Maddie)

to tour the University of North Texas.

There is just something so invigorating about touring a college campus

everyone there raidates

youth

energy

enthusiasm.

I miss college!

I wish that I could have turned 18 and known all that I know now.

Funny thing is, most of what I wish I had known, or wish I had been told...

... I was told. {in some form or fashion}

I just didn't listen.

So odd how we have to learn things ourselves.

Make our own mistakes and learn our own lessons.

My Dad insisted that I should go to Nursing School 

(I had several of the classes done already)

then use the degree to pay my way though as much future school as I wanted.

Did I?

no. I thought the extra year seemed like too much.

Funny how a year seemed like a long time a few years ago.

like too much of a sacrifice. Now it's merely a measurement of time.

My Aunt M. wanted John & I to have a small wedding.

{lots of reasons, all valid}

Did I?

no. I decided that a small wedding was the way to go the week of my

very large, very stressful, very expensive* wedding.

(*expensive for us... I would love to do a future post on how affordable our wedding was and paid for it all ourselves!)

I've learned a lot of lessons.

Many weren't that painful, just informative.

But where are my new beginnings??

What's next?

What lessons have you learned {the hard or the easy way}?