Seriously, I haven’t been AWOL, I’ve just been a little busy, but I figure I owe a little explanation and update.

The Job

I have a new job.  I’m still a web developer, but I now work for a different company.  My job duties are more well rounded, it’s better for my career, and there are great people to work with.  I’ve even been able to work from home twice.

The job is also one hour and fifteen minutes from my house.  It will move to one hour from my house on January 12.  I’m also carpooling, which I thought would give me the opportunity to blog on the way, but I’m also feeling a little guilty not making conversation with the guy that is so willingly letting me ride in his car.

The House

Many of you know that we’ve been looking for a house for over two years.  Between the crime, the space, and other factors, we’d wanted out of our house and we’ve been looking in our area for what seemed like eternity.  This move of a job has allowed us to look in a different location, and just last week I signed the papers to apply for a mortgage on a new house.

Perhaps I’ll write some posts sometime on what I learned through the four offers we made, but suffice it to say that we look forward to moving to a new location at the middle to end of this month if not the beginning of next month.

Our current house is on the market, and we’re praying for a speedy sale.

The Blogs

All of this traveling, holidays and paper signing has made it difficult to be writing.  I’ve tried to fit it in occasionally, but it’s funny (for me) how I was doing four posts a day around the election and then I seemed to “drop off the face of the Earth.”

I plan to resume regular blogging after the move and as we get settled.  Until then, we’ll be cleaning for showings, packing, moving, painting, unpacking, etc.  Until then, the top priorities for blogging are this blog and Is This Modest—for which I have great contributors and it is moving along quite well.  Any extra time will go into Weekend Kindness, and look to VeggieTales Review for any status updates on the house, since my alter ego will post what’s going on in the family as well as VeggieTales news¹.

Sound like a plan?

I covet your prayers as we find a new church, new friends, old friends, our way around a new location, etc.  It’ll be a change, and though it’s not far from where we are, it’s far enough to feel more detached from family and things we know than I’ve ever been.

1. This will allow for me to keep normal content here, while still giving you all status updates! [↩]