The Tribe Moves On

Well, it already seems I am proving to be a negligent blogger. Somehow, in a town where I know no one, and have nothing to do, the days fill up! It must be that 1.5 year old boy running around here. Anyway, I have some news...the Thompson family is now moving to DC. After a few years of praying and wondering where we were supposed to be and what we were supposed to be doing, the Lord has called us back to DC. Irby will be continuing his job that he had while we were in AL, which is great, because he really loves it. His company has asked up to relocate to DC because they are opening an office up there, and they need someone to head up the effort. Needless to say, we jumped at the opportunity. Now hopefully, this will be our last move for a while. Ever since we left over 2 years ago, we've been missing it, so this is a very exciting thing for our family. We already have a great church, Grace DC, and wonderful friends, many of whom have had babies since we left. It is very encouraging to know we already have a community to plug in to, especially friends who are in the same stage of life as us and especially in a big city where it's easy to get lost.
Oh, and many of you will be happy to know that when I asked little Irby (as he was dipping his cracker into his blueberry juice) what he thought of moving to DC, he said, "GO DORES!" It's hilarious when he says this because the GO is a very high pitched shrieking sound followed by a low pitched DORES.
Well, that is our news for now...I'm hoping to post some pictures here in the next few days so you can see what we've been up to down here in Alabama.

Keeping up with the Nomads

Well, here were are in our new city of Huntsville, and I've found myself with A LOT of time on my hands(well, really only in the afternoon when Irby is down for his 3-4 hours nap, so I'm trying to keep myself busy in this very large, very empty, and very temporary house), so I decided to start a blog! I figured it would be a good way to let everyone know what was going on with us and also share pictures of little Irby, who is 18 months now! I also thought it would be a good way for me to write down the funny things he's doing now, so I can look back and remember them. If I were really organized, I would just write them down in his baby book, but seeing as though his baby book is somewhere in a storage POD right now, this will have to do. Here is a recent picture of him taken by my friend Emily Joy. These were taken when he was about 17 months old.
Now, first off, some of you may be wondering how we came to live in Huntsville. Well, it has seemed really complicated to me lately, but actually it's really simple. Irby has been working up here for the past 2 years, commuting from Birmingham 2 days a week and working from his home office the other 3 days. As time has gone on, he has been given more responsibility at work and so was having to be up here 3-5 days per week. That combined with the normal travel responsibilities of his job meant we weren't seeing much of him here at home, so we decided to put our house on the market. To make a very long story short, including a contract falling through on the house, we had an offer finalized Sept. 19, and they wanted to close Sept. 23. We thought it might happen eventually, but really had no clue that it would happen so fast. It was a really hard move....moving from a city where you have a great church, great friends, and even long time friends who had known you for many years, all of whom have babies within 6-12 months of yours, makes it really hard to move to a city where you know no one, literally no one! I think that is really strange, I mean name any city in the southeast, or northeast for that matter, and you probably know someone who lives there, but obvioulsy God is teaching us something as He's moved us to the only 'major' (the word 'major' is definitely a stretch) city in the southeast where we don't know a soul. Well, we're adjusting, but please come visit us! Here's a picture of Irby in front of our old house where he was born on 8th Terrace in Crestwood.