DUN DUN DUN

YAY!

About an hour ago the 8 year old I live with got home from school and the first thing he did was run down stairs and say "Beth, did you apply to Oklahoma yet?" (Meaning did you get accepted to Philly yet, he gets confused with all the terms...the boys knew that I would be getting my decision letter today.) I say to him "I don't know, has the mail come in yet? Let's go check." We walk upstairs and his mom says "Hey Beth, you have lots of mail today!" The boys take my stack and find a letter from the Philly school and say "OPEN IT OPEN IT OPEN IT!"

Right away I saw how thick the letter was so I knew what was inside, but I let the 8 y/o open and read it out loud. After reading through all the fancy vocab for saying "You're in" he goes "Wait, does that mean you applied? YAY!" The boys had the biggest grins and were so happy.

Not only that, I also got a birthday present from a friend today that was a paperweight that has the Jeremiah 29:11 verse on it. How crazy awesome (crawesome?) is that...I mean earlier today I was thinking about what a big decision I might have if I got accepted to both schools, and then that comes in the mail.

AND not only that the birthday present from my sister came in the mail as well, and it is Switchfoot's "The Beautiful Letdown" which is one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. I actually owned it when it first came out, but I gave it to a friend who was going through a rough patch in her life. Now I have it again and it's a perfect background soundtrack for me in terms of inspiring deep thinking.

Such a great day overall!