That’s what most people are saying when we tell them our crazy news that we are moving to of all places New York City! Ok, so we’re not actually going to LIVE in New York City, but Rock will be working there. He has accepted a job to work for Fog Creek Software right in the heart of downtown Manhattan-3 blocks from Ground zero and the New York Stock Exchange. We will most likely live in Northern New Jersey and Rock will ride the train into work. New Jersey is cheaper and actually very very beautiful I was pleased to find on our trip there. I was very glad that suburbia can in fact be found there, for as much as I loved New York City, I would NOT want to live there. And that’s why when Rock first told me he’d applied for a job in New York City I told him he was insane and that I was never moving there. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” Obviously, God definitely had other plans for me then I had for myself.

Here’s the story. We have felt for a while now that this summer was a good time for our family to make a change. Rock wanted to try something new at work and we both wanted a dryer climate. We both felt like it was time for us to move to a new place, have new experiences and grow in new ways. We were thinking somewhere in the WEST. As Rock started to job search he decided on a whim to apply for the job at Fog Creek just to get some good interview experience. As he got further and further in the interview process, we felt more and more like maybe this was something we should do. Three interviews later he was offered the job and we were faced with the major decision of whether to move our little family all the way across the country. New York City was virtually a foreign country to us. But after lots of prayers and a fabulous trip to New York and New Jersey, we took the offer. We are looking at it as a short term BIG adventure. I have always wanted to live out East for a time to explore all the church and history sights. And now we get the chance! It’s all very scary and exciting at the same time. We don’t know where we’re going to live, we don’t know if we can sell our house, we don’t know even the first thing about moving across the country, but we do know it’s where the Lord wants us to go… so New York City here we come.