We were pleasantly surprised yesterday when we saw that there was someone moving into the house next door.  It is a new house that has been vacant since we got here.  Kelly and I walked over to greet the new family and found that it include a seventeen year old boy, a fourteen year old girl, and an eleven year old boy.  When we first got to North Carolina there was a wonderful girl about Kelly’s age with a wonderful family who lived right next door to the house we rented.  When we found a house to buy, we were sad because there was really no one in the neighborhood Kelly and Christian’s age.

We talked to the father of the family and met the seventeen year old boy, too.  They came from South Carolina.  All the kids had gone to a Christian school in Charleston.  When they came here, they found a school they really liked, but could only get the oldest boy into it.  They have decided they will homeschool the other kids for the rest of this year, then make a decision about whether to continue homeschooling or put the kids in school next year.  They sounded very nice.  We are looking forward to meeting the rest of the family.