Thoughts on Being Done...

So I couldn’t post anything else on my blog until I wrote on this subject...

I'm officially a Webster University Alumn.  And I cannot express how much that very sentence fills me with satisfaction!!

After I finished school my first instinct was to post a HOLYCRAPIMFINALLYFINISHED style post. And HOLYCRAPIMFINALLYFINISHED still fits my feelings on the subject…but I also wanted to take a little bit to let it all sink in. With the holidays it was a series of busy this and busy that type days. My to-do list was still full…my days were still long and so I knew I was done. I was relieved and I was elated! We even celebrated the next day after my final class with a night out on the town. See here for the great pics of the evening. (Thanks my husband and best friends for a fun relaxing way to remember my achievement!! I know we’ll never forget Henry or his tactics for hitting on our husbands. Oh it was funny!)

But at that point, it hadn’t sunk. I don’t think it hit me…just what it all really means to be done…until this week. I started back to work after a fabulous break from the workplace. And I seriously thought that Sunday…the end of my break…would make me terribly sad and though it was wonderful, I’d be craving more time at home.  The Linley 3 had so much quality time it was crazy.  But one thing changed this year when I returned from break. I’m going back to work…and that’s it. Not work and school.  Which I have done without fail every break since I started work.  And the realization that I’m not signed up for any spring classes…there are no new class rosters with my name, or teachers who will call class roll and find me sitting in a row, with my soda or coffee, pen and paper, texting back to my real life and day dreaming about being anywhere but there…oh no. Folks…this time around…I’m a graduate. And I’m so very proud of myself. I’m so relieved and motivated to enjoy this time I get back, that I can’t even put it into words. So anyway…I wanted to touch on it here b/c it’s been a big part of my ramblings in various posts in recent months. And say thank you to everyone who gave me a word of encouragement or asked me how it was going. I especially want to thank my Mom, Jeremy and Steff. My 3 sources of strength from which I could not have finished taking school and would have quit…there is no doubt in my mind. They all listened to endless talk from me about stress, exhaustion, homework assignments…and I’m sure I drove them nuts! But their support was unfailing and so important to me. Steff even posted a wonderfully humbling post about it here. Thanks again!  I’m excited to check off this life goal I set for myself and enjoy my new found freedom and achievement.