Life Is Changing. Life Has Changed.

Copyright ThisNest

Copyright ThisNest

My first day of nursing school outfit is laid out. My dividers are snug in my new binders. My pens and highlighters have been carefully selected and zipped into their designated pockets…And my son has been gone a month now.

Life is changing. Life has changed.

I am heading into tomorrow, a tangled mess of emotions. Some describable…like I really miss my first-born son, and I wish he was here to see me off tomorrow.  Others not so much…only the nauseatingly joyful lump of nervousness and pride and fear and excitement that is sitting squarely on top of my chest, squeezing me a little more tightly with every minute that brings me closer to tomorrow. My first day of nursing school. My first day of nursing school!

So many happenings since we made this decision, as a family. Two years of sports seasons, a twentieth and twenty-first anniversary, braces going on…and coming off, first visits from the tooth-fairy (the last of these firsts for the Sparrows), the beginning of high school for one…and the end of it for another, our high school graduate’s flight from This Nest to his new home in California, first haircuts for long-haired little boys, and joys and heartbreaks, and laughter and tears, and a lot of really hard work and sacrifice…from ALL of us.

And the best advice I have ever gotten turned out to be true.

The time is going to pass anyway.

And here I am. After having worked so diligently (with the support of my phenomenal family) through all of my prerequisites, maintaining a nearly perfect GPA, completing my CNA certification, submitting my nursing program application…and waiting. Waiting and waiting ten long weeks for that acceptance letter.

Here I am.

Just me and the nauseatingly joyful lump of nervousness and pride and fear and excitement that is sitting squarely on top of my chest, squeezing me a little more tightly with every minute that brings me closer to tomorrow. My first day of nursing school. My first day of nursing school!

Life is changing. Life has changed.

I am ready.

 

 

About thisnest

The Sparrows are happily married, and the parents of five children. Donna and her husband Antonio are college sweethearts who also raised his seven siblings, many with special needs, for nearly two decades. Along the way they have navigated the ups and downs of being a blended, black, white, and brown family. Donna celebrates each day of blessings and embraces her family’s “interraciality” through poetry, anecdotes, and glimpses into her beautifully chaotic life on her blog at www.ThisNest.com
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