Downtown Wilmington

At the time of this entry, this if Philip's favorite!

In an effort to end my drought here in my own corner of the blogosphere, I realized that I should make the official announcement....Our family is moving to Wilmington. Philip has been appointed by the Bishop of the UMC to plant a church in downtown Wilmington. We are both very excited and both very sad to leave Roxboro. In the seven years that we have lived here, we have grown unbelievably attached. It's hard to believe that this time 7 years ago Ryan was born and we put our house up on the market in Wilmington. We heard news of that we would be moving to a town I'd only ever heard of. I google searched Roxboro and discovered that it had 2 Food Lions, 1 Super Walmart, 1 Lowe's Food and a MOPS group. That was about all I knew. Now seven years later, just today, I went to that said Food Lion and within the short 15 minutes that I was there I ran into 4 people that I knew. So, needless to say, it will be sad to move away.
To Wilmington we return. We have now made three trips to Wilmington. We have traversed many miles searching for the home that we would like to set our roots down in. Looking for signs of where God would want our family to be, where he is leading us to begin this new chapter in our lives. Our realtor has taken us through big and small, turn key and 1950s with no updates. We have laughed; we have oh and ahhh; we have cried (OK maybe just me); we have dreamed; we've envisioned; we have unlocked many doors of peoples' homes who are desperately trying to sell in this buyers market. We will make one of these sellers very happy whenever we can decide on a home. The kids have been great about this whole thing. This is their second trip with us to look at houses. Every house we look at, they love and want us to buy!