A decade ago...

....I was turning 20. I was a sophomore at Winthrop University living in Margaret Nance with my roomie, Lindsay. Oh my how things have changed in the past 10 years, and I'm not talking about little changes, I'm talking about huge, significant changes!! Take a look down memory lane with me:

1. I met another significant person in my life, Janelle, during my sophomore year. She's a dear, dear friend to this day and someone I could not imagine life without. She's the friend you call when you want to chat or when you need the complete honest truth - because she will deliver it to you, but with love.
2. I graduated from Winthrop with a B.S. in Elementary Ed.
3. I graduated from Furman with a Masters in Reading
4. I got my first teaching job at CCES.
5. I met, planned a wedding and married my sweet hubby, Chad.
6. I moved 6 times (Winthrop to home, home to an apt, apt back home, home to Anderson, Anderson to Easley, and Easley back to Anderson!! Makes me tired just typing it!)
7. My family joined an amazing church (Simpsonville First Baptist) where I've been active ever since and have met so many of our "couple friends" there.
8. I had a baby!!!
9. I became a stay at home mom
10. I almost have a 1 year old!!!!

Isn't it amazing to take a look at the road God leads you down in hinesight?? But, although these are all great and wonderful things what matters most is that I pray I was pleasing to God in everything I did in these last 10 years. I know I blew it a WHOLE lot, which is why I am thankful for forgiveness and grace. I am also thankful for the next 10 years ahead. I can't wait to see what my list will hold then and just where God will have led us by then!! I'm going to leave you with the words on the birthday card that my wonderful friend Jennifer gave me because they really spoke volumes to me, and I hope they will to you too:

God is writing a book about you.

The pages tell of your life

and the lives you were created to touch.

No one else will take exactly the same path as you,

meet the same people,

or have a chance to show the love of God in the same way.

You are unique and so is your story...

and it's one of the Author's favorite reads.