I'm about ta burst!

I'm about ta burst! And it's not because I had a stack of banana/chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and nacho chips for lunch :)

It's because I am excited for my girls.

If you read Mustard Seed, you already know that we have accepted a seat for Alli at a charter school for next year!

It has been such a huge leap of faith, and so much fun to trust God in the area of watching out for Alli and Liv.

Ever since we talked about moving here, the whole "school thing" has been a question people immediately ask us about. However, that issue alone has brought about some of the best things in our family. It led us to homeschool last year. It led us to finding the school the girls are currently in. It led us to trusting God through this crazy process of getting Alli into a middle school. And, I can honestly say that I have enjoyed the process and have been excited all the way through to see what God had planned. People who live here would comment on how I was remaining so calm about it all. If they knew the "old" me, they would really be surprised. There was a time when the slightest bit of uncertainty about the future caused me tremendous stress.

Anyways.......to make a long story short, we enrolled Alli in a new school that she will start next year. Lots of good things I can say about this school, but I will just say that if you would like to read about it, you can check out their website

Some things I will say, it is a 6-12 grade school, they have sibling preference, so if we want Olivia to go there, she is guaranteed a seat, it is new, small, innovative, and passionate about teaching children how to learn and how to be successful in a global community. It is a college preparatory school, diverse, with a lot of community and family support, and very impressive faculty.

So, we are excited.

We were also excited to find out this week that Olivia did well on the "gifted and talented" test she took. Without going into a bunch of detail, it wont likely change where she goes to school, but it is nice to feel affirmed of what we already suspected, that God really has blessed Liv with some smarts. I'm proud of her, and will be even more proud of her if she applies herself and shows motivation and a strong work ethic as she goes through school.

It's a beautiful day. We are going as a family to the Mets game tonight with free tickets. And, tomorrow, after we do "meals on heels" as a family, Alli gets to do a dance performance in the park in our neighborhood. They are having a community event there.

Timm's having a boys night out sat night. Sun we have a band visiting and performing at our Sunday gathering for church.

I'm about ta burst! I'm so excited. Praise you God, you are too good to me.