One of the hardest things about living in Ithaca is having to constantly say good-bye to friends. Students come for 4 years to get their bachelors, or perhaps 5 or more for a PhD. A few of them stay, but most are in town briefly before they are on to the next thing.
We knew one person who worked at Cornell who had a rule that he would not make friends with associate professors until they received tenure as it was too hard to keep saying good-bye.
(This is part 9 in a 10 part series of posts detailing the events leading up to our move from Ithaca to Dublin. You can read the whole series here. Next week we’ll wrap things up talking about sharing the news with our church in Ithaca.) After Méabh came home from the hospital and was…
(This is part 7 in a series of posts detailing the events leading up to our move from Ithaca to Dublin. You can read the whole series here) As we approached the end of February 2011, the big thing on our minds was the pregnancy. We were learning new medical terms like Placenta praevia and Vasa praevia, which…
When we left off last time, at the end of December, Ireland was off the table.
So in January, we began looking at new homes to buy.
Our realtor made some appointments, and we took a Saturday afternoon to look at some places in the Trumansburg area.
First house…blah.
Second house…meh.
Fourth house…ugh.
But house #3…I loved it. Brenna loved it (the other kids were out of town). Love might be too strong for Liz, but she thought it would work.
Our realtor was amazed at the price.
We had decided in the spring to move from Ithaca to Trumansburg to get our kids in a different school district. Although it had been 2 plus years since the attack on our one daughter had taken place, it was clear she needed a new start in a new place.
“What do you want us to do with the next 20 years of our lives?”
I already knew the answer to that question. In fact I talked to several friends before we left on our trip and said, “I think the answer is continue leading the Ithaca Vineyard Church. But I need to ask.”
So we did.
By October of 2009 the craziness of the previous 2 years was settling down. The Vineyard was about to move into its new location, and I was eager to get back to work. There were a lot of us who were still trying to sort out all that had happened…but the worst seemed to have passed.
But the ripples.
On the one hand it feels like the whole, “Let’s move to Dublin and plant a church,” thing came out of left field. Yet as I step back and look at the year or two leading up to Ireland first popping up on our radar, it makes a lot more sense. *Let me say at…
Our schedule is filling out a bit more as we move closer and closer to our visit to NY, and we’ll have a general update on which part of the state (Long Island, Chautauqua County, or Ithaca) we’ll be in throughout the month in the hope that we can reconnect with as many friends as…
As we mentioned in our most recent newsletter, we are heading to NY for 4 weeks this summer. We’re excited about reconnecting with our family and many of our friends. We do have a couple of updates since then. First off it will be all 6 of us coming back, not just 5 of us….
