Marvelous Monday!!

Today is Marvelous Monday at my old college. It is a time honored tradition of a day off with fabulously fun activities planned that you have no clue when it is going to be each year. It might be a Wonderful Wednesday or a Terrific Tuesday you just don't know until you get that little slip of paper under your door that states that classes have been cancelled and you are to go back to bed!!!

I love that day! This is a picture of myself and two friends from one of our Wonderful Wednesdays. It is just so clear to me why I didn't date....would it have killed someone to tell me to calm my hair down?

It's been 18 years since I was in college. If I had a baby right when I graduated from college that baby would be starting college this fall!!! Crazy!!

Marvelous Monday reminded me of something today and I wanted to share it with you.

I have always prayed that I would live a life with no regrets. It's a hard request because you as a human will always second guess yourself. If only I had gone with this career choice or what if I had never even gone to that school!! Choices that you are making today are shaping the life that you will have in the future.

I can remember being in college, and every year there would be an alumni weekend. It was one weekend out of the year where alumni could come back and see old friends and show their school off to their kids! I can actually remember saying "Why on earth are these people wasting their time coming back here? When I graduate I will go so far from this place I will never return." I was stupid really. Lesson learned here is never say never.

This morning when Marvelous Monday was announced several of us alumni were remembering our past Wonderful Wednesdays. A current student posted how sweet she thought it was. I'm not sure if she was being sarcastic or not but it reminded me of my old cynical self and if I could go back and change anything one thing would be to live those 4 years at my college to the fullest! Study harder, love the degree I have selected, be more involved!!

Don't get me wrong I still have very fond memories of my Alma Mater! I always will! I just wish I had lived more in the moment I was in!

I can remember doing that when my kids were small. I was too busy trying to keep my head above water I didn't enjoy the pre-school years. I'm doing it now...I'm so tired of laundry and a messy house I just want to move on to the next stage! I will miss this stage. As much as this stage is driving me crazy I am sure that there will be a day when I would give anything to go back and live just one of these crazy days. Preferably one of the calmer ones.

Life is so short! Enjoy the life that has been given to you and love those that are around you! Stop waiting for the perfect situation to do what you want to do, do it now!!

Have a Marvelous Monday!!!