Warning: This is where it gets long and possibly boring so, if you don't want my life story of the last 10 yrs. no need to read on =)
In the fall of 1999, I started going to CSU.
After graduation....I had already decided to go to CSU for the fall semester of 1999. I had a great summer but during that time I realized something was missing from my life and started having questions about life in general and the meaning and purpose of life. So...at that point I guess you could say I was a "seeker". I had key people in my life trying to guide me and answer my questions. September came and I started school. (Side note: I had no clue what I wanted to do. Why do we push our kids to go to college immediately after high school if they don't know what they want to do so they can earn a degree in something and a year later decided that's not what they want to do and to have them go to college again after they finally decide what they really want to do? Sorry. I'm just saying.) It was soon after the start of school I had a transforming experience! Truth was revealed and I became a person who believed in Christ and realized that he died for me (and everyone else) to save me! To understand that there was nothing I could do to make Him love me more or nothing I could do to make Him love me less was WOW! It changed my life and the course of my future. I changed from night to day. October 1999 is when I met Jose. We became friends, and soon after I knew he was the man I was going to marry! I actually called my mom and said "Hey Mom, I met the guy I'm going to marry!" At the time, she thought I was crazy. (She LOVES Jose now just so ya know!) In December 1999, I decided school was not for me! Mom thought I was really crazy. (She knows I'm not now;-) )Then I told her that I was going with Jose, the guy I told her I was going to marry & who I just met a couple of months ago, to NYC Times Square for New Year's Eve. That probably about sent her over the edge! Fast forward and April 2000 I was engaged. (Long story there... but mom, along with other people, thought I joined a cult so when Jose went to ask her if he could marry me, he ended up inviting her to visit this so called cult (Seacoast Chuch)LOL! Anyways, she went and never stopped attending after that. (Side Note: If you live in Charleston and don't go to church, check out www.seacoast.org! It's an amazing church and definitely NOT a cult. My mom will attest to this! Whew! I know she was relieved!) I worked at Olive Garden (yummy) for a while and actually LOVED it! I had bad days of course but I really liked being a waitress. (I'm a nurse now it's like being a waitress except you get paid more.) Jose and I got married June 1, 2001. Can't believe it's been almost 8 yrs! Seven months later, I was pregnant with our first born (Elijah Angel Noy). I found out, right after I started working at Seacoast. While I worked there, you could bring your baby to work with you for the first 6 months. So, I did that and when the time was up I became a stay at home mom! When Elijah was 8 months old I was pregnant with Abrianna Elyse Noy! Well, I guess my life wasn't busy enough b/c the Nov. before Abi was here I really felt God calling me to be a nurse! WHAT! I thought! I don't like blood. I never saw an old person's body. A bazillion thoughts came to my head. But, I filled out the papers in Nov. and a week later got my acceptance letter and actually started going to school in January while I was still pregnant. I was to start the nursing program in exactly one year! Oh, I forgot to mention in the same November I felt like I was going to be a nurse, Jose felt led to start a business and that's when we started Communication & Surveillance Services aka CSS (www.comsurv.com). I started the nursing program and frankly at first I was traumatized! My first patient was in a nursing home (keep in mind before then I was never around any sick elderly people. NEVER) she had a colostomy and dentures. I had never seen anyone take out dentures and it really scared me! I was really upset. I could not believe I was actually doing this. Well, I finally got use to the things I was doing and managed to survive! ( I swear it's a MIRACLE!) In my last year of school, friends of ours told us they were planting a church in Charlotte, NC. Immediately, we were on board. So, 2 days after graduating nursing school, we made our home in Charlotte and started helping out with Mosaic Church. Moving forward...by the way we were DONE having kids after 2!!!! I was begging and pleading with Jose to get a vasectomy! He was anti-clipping (as I like to say)! When Abi turned 3 God really changed both of our hearts about children! (I'm writing another blog about that later) Immediately I got pregnant with Joseph Daniel Noy. Elijah started TK at a private school while I was pregnant. He was born February 15, 2008. Soon after is when it happened...Both the older kids were registered for private school for the fall...We paid all of our money and everything...and then...I felt the Lord lead me to homeschool! WHAT! Crazy! (I am a former ANTI-HOMESCHOOLing mom) Wow! Another miracle! (another blog on that story later as well;-) ) Oh, at that point we knew we wanted more children and we wanted them close like Abi and Elijah. Hello, we didn't know they would be that close! Moses Allen Noy was born 12 1/2 months after Joseph. So, here we are today. It has been a journey with many changes almost all for the better! I'm blessed beyond anything I could have dreamed or imagined. I can't wait to write the next 10yr story.
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