My family is doing pretty well with our transition. The children have neighborhood friends and are now beginning to play soccer with the Aldan Boy's Club. We have been careful to spend adequate time with them investigating our new world. We have gone to playgrounds, churches, stores, the zoo, the neighborhood pool, and Valley Forge National Park. They are saying less and less about missing their old house, but still miss Lynchburg friends--which I entirely understand and relate. They are starting back to home-schooling preschool and might join a cyber preschool soon. They love to learn...(especially since after certain milestones they are rewarded with making cookies!) Come to think of it...I really like it when they learn too!!
We live 2 miles from the city line of Southwest Philadelphia. Most of the entire city is very dense row-housing. There are over 50 thousand African immigrants and refugees living in SW Philly. More and more people are overflowing into east Delco as the entire region continues to diversify.
This is a pizza place just a few blocks from our house. It has a model train and ferris wheel which are hits with the children.
There are all kinds of public transportation options here. My house is 1 block from the trolley car and only 3-4 blocks from the train station. Chip and I love to go to center city Philly, and soon we will need to test the tracks!
Much of the North-East has a heavy Catholic presence, East Delco is no exception. Although steeples are all around, the need for deep relationship with God and belief in the gospel presides.
