While staying in Idaho for the weekend, Scott and I took the boys to Rexburg to see how the little town had "grown up" since I was a student there. The boys and I strolled around the what seemed like double the size campus. It was impossible not to be nostalgic as I walked through buildings again that I had walked through hundreds of time before. I always refer to my years as a student at Ricks College as my "glory years." I did love the two years I spent living there- I had wonderful friends and fantastic professors. But it was also the first time I was truly my own, independent being. No one knew who I was before, who my family was, and how I was "supposed" to act. There were also the insecurities about the future- now what? As I walked around campus that night, I thought how much comfort and joy I would have felt if I would have been given a glimpse into the future 20 years- to have a peek at myself and my husband and sons strolling around the campus? I know I would have spontaneously combusted with excitement- what a happy and blessed life I have!
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