All my bags are packed; I’m ready to go, I’m standing here outside your door, I hate to wake you up to say goodbye…

My family and I have just moved to New Jersey. I have always heard rumor that this was a garbage state but from my window all I see are hills and sky , it truly is a garden state.

We are living here for only a short while; we usually live 20 minutes from Chicago. My husband has taken on an internship here for 3 months until we have a clearer idea of where we might be going as far as a job in concerned. Calvin (My Husband) just graduated from Seminary and is now waiting to take a 2-3 day oral exam in Indiana (our home state) at the end of June to complete his work. Once this is finished he can put out his resume and finds a more permanent location for our family to live. I personally am in no rush, I am falling in love with the East Coast.

Calvin and I have moved 7 times in 3 years and I am ready to put my roots in somewhere for a while. It has been a fun ride but it is getting harder with two daughters to move.

The Moves.

When we were married in June of 2005, we moved into a tiny upstairs duplex that we called "the love nest" do to it being 24 stairs high and very small. The spring of 2006 we Moved to NJ for our first internship and fell in love with the church family out here, 3 months later we moved back to the nest and 3 months after that we moved to a 3 bedroom home better suited for a family (i was 6 months pregnant) that following summer we moved to MI for a second internship, (found out we were pregnant again) and again 3 months later moved back to our house and now 9 months later we have packed our bags, watched Calvin get his diploma (Popped out another little daughter) and drove to New Jersey for yet another Move. Quite a lot for 3 years eh? If we have learned anything it is to "Bloom where planted" This final move coming up however is a bit more permanent... we just has no idea when and where and if it will occur.

So I guess what I am saying is that I am setting up a blog. I hope to get advice on children, moving, etc. and to have something in the midst of this chaos to “pen” my thoughts. I tend to take on new projects when stressed to put my mind else where. I am starting a recipe book, have cut out all red meat and am trying to be a 99% vegetarian, I also have started waking up at the butt crack of dawn (5 AM) to start running... le'sigh Please Lord show us where we belong in a clear way soon!
-Gwen

The LORD will keep you from all harm-- he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Psalm 121:7-8