Excited for the next chapter

Unfortunately, I have kept up with my trend of not blogging regularly. Forgive me.

Life has been whipping by and we turned around twice and April is just about over with! In April I snuck up to Kentucky for a nice little visit. Listen, I cried when the plane flew over the horse farms and I saw the horses running the track. God made all things perfect, but he spent just a little bit more time on Kentucky. It never gets old going home and seeing family.

Speaking of home, it seems like all month Jace and I have been searching for our next apartment. Searching for housing is not fun but as the old saying goes, "search now or be homeless later". I think we have finally found an apartment which is located in Symrna, TN. The apartment complex is still being built but we have found a few pictures to look at and get a feel for the complex. Jace and I have memorized the floor plan and mentality placed furniture in rooms. It is taking everything in me to not go to TJ Maxx, Homegoods, Garden Ridge, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond and start buying up things for the apartment. Lauren once told me that there will come a point in time when you would rather buy things for your home than for yourself. Oh, was she right! That time is now!

Our excitement isn't just for the apartment, it's also for this next chapter in our lives. In less than a month Jace will be done with finals, a capstone paper, and will graduate from UF. These past 9 months have gone by both fast and slow. We have finally settled into a routine here in Gainesville just in time to jack it up and create a new one in TN. We daydream what it will be like to live life without school? What will it feel like to have Jace come home from work and not have to study or work problems? What will it be like to have Jace with me on both nights and weekends? These things get me excited like a little girl waiting on Christmas Eve. Though this is the path we have chosen, we are both happy that this chapter in life is coming to an end.

It's funny how life let's you know when its time for one chapter to end. I feel like we have accomplished what we set out to do in Gainesville and now its time for something else. I compare it to the feelings I had when I was in high school. Though I enjoyed high school, I was ready to go to UK. I was ready for new experiences, new people, new beginnings. This is exactly how I feel now. I'm ready to live life without school and the stresses and time commitments that accompany it. Praise God that he has saw Jace through school and giving us patience through the years.

But as one chapter ends, I can't help but remember and reflect on the past and I feel grateful. I'm grateful that some days are over with, grateful for Jace's love and understanding when I was down and missing home, grateful for God's provisions, grateful to spend 9 whole months with Jace, and now I must stop because I'm crying! God saw us through this chapter and I know he will see us through the next.