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This year I find myself thankful for many, many things...here are some: 1. My Jesus - His love and forgiveness keep me going every day 2. My dad - more thankful for him each passing year 3. Maggie - gosh, I just love her SO much 4. Calli - even with her mental issues, she's still my cutie patootie 5. Lola - I'll never forget a morning last spring when I had put sticks and leaves in my hair as part of camping themed day at school and she lay behind my head on the couch and groomed my hair, pulling out all my decorations 6. My best friend Amy - surprising her in Dallas this summer was so much fun! 7. My new job with Ryan - what a sweet and funny little boy 8. My grandma Judy - her strength and determination make me want to be a better person 9. Lilly - my little Jelly Bean who loves to get her nails done on a Girls Day and refers to this holiday as Indian Day 10. Peyton - I just know he's going to grow up to play professional soccer. Gooooaaaaal! 11. Lola - such a...

A year ago, I started on an adventure that I believed would change my life, open doors of possibilities, and make me more well-rounded as a person - grad school. It happened pretty innocently enough, I got a wild idea one Saturday morning to look at online Christian colleges to see if they had any Master's degrees I was interested in. Grand Canyon University offered a degree in Biblical Studies with an Emphasis on Youth and I was very interested in that. I started to fill out what I believed was a bunch of questions to create an online account with them so I could log on in the future. A few minutes later, as I was wondering about all the questions, a screen came up that said, "Congratulations! You have submitted your application for grad school" or something to that affect. *Gulp* What had I gotten myself into? The next couple of weeks consisted of filling out applications, many phone calls, and (what seemed to me) door after door opening that made me believe I was doi...