Last Day of Undergrad

Today was my very last day of classes at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Wow. I don't know what else to say except, wow. 

All I have left is to finish an evernote assignment for Dr. Berber about Montessori education and take two education finals on Tuesday and THAT'S IT. Come Tuesday afternoon, I will be done turning in assignments for Cal Poly. Done taking tests. Done getting lost on campus. Done getting sunburned in the uu. Done waiting in the long starbucks line. Done. Done. Done. 

And in nine short days I'll be sitting in the hot sun waiting to receive a diploma. 

But how can a sheet of paper with my name on it some up the past four years? Somehow that just doesn't seem possible to me. And like that, four years are done. Done with a blink of the eye. 

Tonight I was babysitting Nicole and on the 10th she'll be five months old. Time. How does time go by so fast? I started babysitting her when she was 12 days old and now she is almost five months old. Time goes by and it goes by fast. Whether it be four years in college or the two weeks off we get during winter break. And you can't stop it. You can't change the fact that it goes by so fast. 

Tonight while on a walk with Nicole, I was just talking to her and I was telling her how loved she was and how beautiful God made the world. I was chatting away and she slowly fell asleep on my hip. She was holding my finger and as she dozed off she kept holding on. I continued to talk to her and all of a sudden out of no where I feel tears rolling down my face. And as I cried I kept on talking. But I turned towards God this time. And I just said, "God, I'm going to miss her. She's only a little baby and I've only known her for a short period of time, but I'm really really going to miss Nicole." And I kept on talking as I was walking in that neighborhood I said God, "I would be fine of doing another year of this. Going to school, babysitting, living in SLO... ya know?" And he looked down at me with the tiniest hint of a smile and he said, "Whitney Rose, you're going to Spain and you are going to be BRAVE. And you can do it because I'm with you." 

And God and I, we just kept on chatting and Nicole slept and the birds chirped and I knew that God had a plan. He has a plan for me. He has a plan for baby Nicole. And he has a plan for the guy who drove by as I was walking. You see, change has to happen. In order for us to grow and to keep becoming who we need to be, we have to change. It could be in where we live, in what we do, in who we are live, or what happens to us in the future. But change is inevitable. 

You see it's time. It's time for me to move out of San Luis Obispo. Time for me to say, "See ya later," to this beautiful place. I have grown so much here and it will always have a very special place in my heart, but it's time. 

And God knows that, obvi. That's why I'm moving to Spain for a bit!  

But speaking of change, this is going to be my very last blog post in Cuddles Corner, good things do have to end at some point! Stay tuned for a new blog I will be starting for my time in Spain! 

I love you friends :) 

If we haven't hung out in a while, let's do so before graduation! Love you guys :)

And so does Jesus! 

xoxo, 

McWhitters