Decisions, Decisions

After much pondering, fasting, and prayer, we made the decision that Matt would apply to graduate school and attend full time if he was accepted. Actually, Matt really has been trying to get his MBA for a long time, it just seems like other things kept taking precedence (ie, kids, new job, and moving). It is kinda funny though because our whole married life we have said that we never wanted to have five kids and have him trying to go back to school for his MBA. Funny how life never seems to go according to OUR plan though. So, with FOUR kids we are starting this new phase of our life. Matt applied to lots of places in the Chicago area, but his hope was that he would be accepted into the University of Notre Dame's MBA program. Growing up in the midwest, he always thought it would be great to attend ND. Unfortunately, his GMAT scores had expired so he had to retake the GMAT, which meant a lot of hard studying and lots of prayers. But, it ended up to be a blessing in disguise because he did much better the second time around. So, a couple of months and interviews later, we got the good news...he was a an official "Domer," he was accepted as an MBA candidate at the University of Notre Dame! He will be attending their two year program full time, so we put our house on the market and are hopefully heading to South Bend, IN this summer. The kids took the news of the move better than expected, but I don't think they really understood that we won't be coming back to our neighborhood, and with the housing market in a huge slump right now, we could almost guarantee them they would be able to finish out the school year and spend one last summer in Illinois---that was a great relief to them. So, with lots of faith and a little bit of luck, we are hopping on the starving student wagon hoping to be in a better place at the end of the ride. Wish us luck!