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25 list #3

hello, my friends!
i hope you're doing well!!

here is the 3rd installment of my celebration of 25 :)

25 things that have happened in my 25 years (in no order whatsoever):


1. born in new orleans and lived there til i was 5
2. graduated college
3. visited, and fell in love with, israel
4. i became a teacher to some stinkin' incredible and fun 5th graders....who i really miss some days
5. and now i get to hang out with really adorable and lovable 4/5 yr olds
6. got to go to jamaica several times and love on people there
7. my family moved to ga when i was 5 (which, at the time, i don't think i was very happy about)
8. went to uga!
9. hanging out with amazing kids at lots of awesome places
10. have been blessed with wonderful friends throughout my life that i know will always be there!
11. spent a summer working at a church in boston and loved it :)
12. discovered how much my God loves me and became His daughter
13. anna got married!!!
14. moved to a whole new city (baltimore!!) on my own to be part of something incredible that God is doing
15. learned to play piano and clarinet
16. saved up, researched and bought a camera!
17. got to hang out with some awesome high school kids for a year
18. celebrated my friends getting married!
19. got my first job that has nothing to do with children
20. we started attending west ridge church (which, incidentally, i was also very angry about, but turns out to have been a good thing)
21. got to be part of the filming of remember the titans
22. saw new york...decided i didn't like it very much...
23. discovered a love of baking and cooking
24. learned that other people are more important...always
25. decided that life is better when you let God plan it...it's always an adventure and He's never going to leave you!


it was actually surprisingly hard to write this list :) 
i wasn't expecting it to be so difficult to come up with 25 things that have happened throughout my life, but it took a little while....i feel that some of them have a lot more meaning and story behind them. maybe that's why it was so hard. and some of these things that are listed are so trivial that i'm trying to decide why i included them...

but there you have it.
25 things in 25 years.

have a wonderful day, my dear!

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