My epiphanies usually come in the shower... it seems that this is the only place I get to be alone!

In early 2006, I began planning to go back to school.  I had all my transcripts sent to the community college and had my financial aid ready to fill out.  Then, I had my epiphany.  My motives were so wrong!!  I was going back to get the approval from a father whose standards were so high that I never felt that I measured up.  I thought by finishing my education, I would receive his approval.  I was sick!  So I didn't go back.  I was disappointed in many ways, but felt free.  I knew it was the right decision.

About a year later, same shower, it just washed over me how much I had changed and how I had come to value myself in spite of never feeling that I had received that approval from my father!  At this time, I felt ready.

I enrolled, and although there were MANY obstacles, because I was doing this for me, I finally finished my Associate's degree at the community college.  I worked on it as a part-time, sometimes full-time student and never spoke a word of it to my dad.

One day this fall, my last semester, he started on me again about my education.  I was so proud of myself that I was able to tell him that I was actually about to graduate.  I had done it all without his constant questioning and badgering!

Now, I plan to enroll in a 4 year school in the fall.  It is an exciting time!  Epiphanies are wonderful!  I can think of no better time to get enrolled in Flock than now!!  Thanks for the giveaway and I know it will be such a blessed event for who ever gets to participate in it!