Big Praise!

Our school search is over for the time being: we have submitted our kindergarten application! We felt God's leading and are happy with the list of choices we submitted. Our first choice (St. Anthony Park Elementary) is a long shot to get into, but we are also very pleased with our second choice (Chelsea Heights Elementary) and can easily see our family at either one of those schools. We also have an application in at Nova Classical Academy, a charter school that is also notoriously hard to get into. If we get accepted there, we'll tour it and see how it compares with whatever public school St. Paul gives us. (We decided not to get our hopes up by touring it before getting accepted!)

I was pleased to find out that St. Paul really does offer some excellent public schools. There are certainly ones that I want to avoid, but there are quite a few good choices out there (EXPO was our other top choice, for you St. Paulites reading this).

After we toured Chelsea Heights this afternoon and made our final decision, I was eager to turn in the application. This is more than two weeks before the deadline, but in order to make sure we turned it in on time, I drove it to the Student Placement Center and handed it in myself. Isaac poked a little fun at my paranoia, but during the five minutes I was there, three other parents turned in their applications in person too!

We are very thankful to God for His leading in this decision and for the peace He has given us, and we will continue to pray that we get accepted where He wants us, knowing that we will be content whatever the circumstances!