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Until Next Year, Summer

Summer just ended and Fall is beginning- thanks, Summer 2018, for all of the great memories.

Kady Cooley

Sep 30, 2018

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Kady Cooley, Montana

Fall is probably my absolute favorite season. I love seeing the leaves change colors and hearing them crunch beneath my feet as they fall to the ground, but it's always bittersweet to tell summer goodbye for a year.

As you reflect on your summer what memories come to mind?

Mine was full of change.

I celebrated one year of marriage, moved to a new state into my first home with my husband, and began "adulting" as we call it nowadays. By the way- enjoy the season of life you're currently in because it flies by.

Summer gave me beautiful days on this stunning new lake I moved to.

Jesus showed my husband and I why we moved six hours from home where we knew nobody. Though I know He is always faithful, I spent the first few weeks struggling to trust that.

I spent most of my nights awake until the late hours of night unable to sleep due to constant panic attacks, but through it I learned that it's okay to seek help and that above everything He remains and always will.

I traveled. Boy, did I travel.

I took 8 plane rides (total) and visited two new cities in states that I couldn't have ever imagined myself visiting.

I took a trip to my mom's hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where I was blown away by the history that encompasses the entire city. I stood right in the center of the city looking up at what seemed like endless heights of buildings. I bonded with my mom as she joyfully took me around the city showing me all of the famous landmarks that she used to play around as a child. I be took more pictures that I can even probably count, but I know i'll always look back and be flooded with the joy that that trip bought.

I visited Missoula, Montana, a state that I probably couldn't locate on a map before then. Okay, okay that's exaggerating a little bit, but for real though I couldn't pass the opportunity down once it was presented even though it mean two weeks away from my husband and four fur babies. I was surrounded by the most stunning mountains and couldn't imagine living there full time.

I made friends.

I made friends that I know will be here for a lifetime. I've never had such strong, beautiful, and encouraging Godly women I could consider my friends. They understand they're not perfect, but strive to live a life like Christ and love just as He loved.

This was my Summer of 2018, what's yours?

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2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

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7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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