There is too much to catch you up on from the last time I blogged, so I'll just start with life as of late.
Most of you know that I had planned on staying in College Station after graduation - I liked it there, and felt no real reason to be leaving....and had no desire to. Well, it's funny how our plans never work out like we think they will.
In October, I got the grand idea to google "Nanny Agencies in the USA." To my surprise, many of these existed. So I started browsing, prayed about it for awhile, and then started filling out a couple of applications - which are really long by the way. In the location preference, I put, "no preference" - really having no idea where I'd go - or, if I'd go at all.
You see, as a kid, and currently, I've always just wanted to be a wife/mom, and raise a family and serve my husband. I absolutely love children, have always been a fan, just never wanted to work in the school system...it just never really appealed to me. So nanny, right?
How nanny agencies work is that, after your application is approved (reference/background checks and the general application) the agency will begin calling you with families who are searching for a nanny - you then have the option to say yes you will work for them or no you will not. If you say yes...the nanny agency forwards your application, along with many others, to the family. The family then decides who they will further pursue. It's pretty much out of your hands whether or not your are called.
Well, my application for one agency was approved mid-October, and I said yes to the agency on forwarding my application to a family. I received an email from that family the following week, requesting a phone interview, and that they thought it would take 2 hours at least....(I was thinking, oh my goodness, this could be really good or really bad.) Needless to say, the phone interview was wonderful, and we talked for over two hours. They called me back on November 4th, the following week, telling me they wanted to fly me up to meet them to see if this could work. I was so thrilled, I didn't know what to do. I immediately called my sister, then my parents (who weren't as thrilled as I was, at the time).
The weekend went great, and well, I'm moving up to be their nanny to their newborn baby.
In between all these lines, however, a lot of emotions ran through. I mean, for one, was this what the Lord had planned for me, or was this my own desires? Fairly certain it was Him because I never had ever wanted to move out of Texas...and here I was about to do that.
Things began to work themselves out left and right, better than I could have even attempted to do things which made it pretty clear that I was to leave, and just trust Him- every step of the way.
In the beginning, I was scared, excited, nervous, pretty much everything. I remember clearly, crying on the phone to someone one night about all of this, and how was I going to be this far away from my family!
Now, 4 days away from leaving Texas... I couldn't be more ready. I can't wait to get there and to start this portion of my life. To for once, sort of, be on my own. I'm sure there are days that will be hard, but surely the good days will way out weigh the hard ones.
I sure don't know what the future holds, or what His purpose is in taking me all the way to Virginia, but the truth is...I don't have to know, and I can rest in that.
3 1/2 months ago, I had no idea I would be leaving Texas. I'm finding my wings, and I'm about to take flight.
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