First Year

Well, we moved to Frederick County in late July 2007 and today I was looking for information on what to do in Frederick since we just put our youngest daughter on a plane with her youth group. Much to my surprise, there was little information about things to do. I stumbled on a Blog regarding Frederick Maryland which prompted me to start my own.

I will write about places we visit, including restaurant reviews. As a newcomer to the region, I generally find that most Fredericktonians, those who live or work in Frederick County Maryland are friendly, but it is hard for someone new to really break in to a church, make new friends other than a casual acquaintance. For example, my daughter went on a church youth group trip to a conference today. She has been in the youth group about 9 months, and the group arrived and started going through the airport security we could see that she had fallen to the outside of the circle of girls she was with. It is hard for newcomers to feel that they fit in and are welcome and events like this make me feel sad. I pray that we taught our daughters to reach out to newcomers. For you see, I was in the military for 20 years and moving every two to three years.

I would venture to say that even though Frederick County has a Military Base, the amount of transient population is fairly small. So the question I have is do you feel you and your family are inclusionists or exclusionists?