we’re moving!, part three.

How far is it from where you live now and from your friends?”

Depending on traffic, our new home is a twenty to thirty minute drive (shorter by auto rickshaw) from where we live now.  And our friends, John, Alison, Joshua and Caleb, just signed a lease on an apartment downtown too.  They will be living less than a mile away from us, in a different neighborhood.

John and Alison are nurses, and have joined our team to do community health training in villages, but are also excited about being apart of a city church plant as a family and living in the community where we will worship.

One fun thing about the move is that though we all live together now, we feel like we spend a lot of time downtown for shopping or eating out or going to parks, so even with the distance, we’ll get to see our teammates often.  David works from home for the most part, but he’ll travel back to our current neighborhood for team meetings and some other parts of his job.

“Will Judah go to the same preschool?”

No, we will be too far away for Judah to attend his current preschool.  We are so sad, because he’s had a terrific year and loves his teachers.  We’re also sad he won’t be going to school with his buddy Annie anymore.  But we found out his school just opened a new branch in our neighborhood.  In the next week or so, we hope to take a tour and meet the teachers, and if it goes well, we’ll transfer Judah.  We probably won’t have him start at his new school until January, what with the move, David’s parents’ visiting, and Christmas break.

“What do Judah and Amelie think about moving?”

You know how kids are; they have an amazing knack for taking change in stride.  I’m not sure it’s completely sunk in, but Judah asks me every day if we’re “going to live in our new apartment today?” I have showed him that there are real bathtubs in our new home, and that seems to be enough for him!  Amie is convinced that John and Alison and their kids are moving in with us, since we’ve done all our apartment-hunting together.

[Photos are from today’s trip to one of the malls in our city, which has a huge indoor playground.  Thank you, Colleen for helping me get the kids out of the house so David could work with the movers!]