After toying around with the idea of moving our blog from Typepad (formerly: willis.blogs.com) to a Wordpress-powered site (hosted by Dreamhost) for a while, we made a sudden decision to make the move today. We’ve been Typepad users for a few years now but have decided to move our blog to a Wordpress-powered site.

We were concerned about the process of exporting all of our posts from Typepad to Wordpress, but it was fairly painless. There will be some broken (internal) links around the blog for a while (till we get a chance to clean them up).

While we were mostly happy with Typepad, Wordpress will give us complete control of the site; it will also cost a good bit less. Actually, Wordpress is a free download, but we will pay for hosting at Dreamhost. BTW, there is a free hosted version of Wordpress at Wordpress.com for those who want to blog without dealing with the technical side.

Unfortunately, we will lose some links posted around the Web to our old blog like this one posted at Zondervan.com where they linked to my review of Andy Stanley’s “Making Vision Stick” (here’s the new link), but we believe the move will be worth it in the long run. [EDIT: Zondervan.com updated their link! ]

So, welcome to our new digs on the Web!

Parents, in particular, will recognize these three words: Some assembly required!

We’ve already gotten a little taste of them, too, as we prepare to bring Ethan home. We both put a crib together a few weeks ago, and my (Randy) latest project was putting together a stroller. Actually, I took on the task of choosing the stroller, too. I wanted to make sure it was tough enough to go anywhere. It even comes complete with its own tire pump in the basket underneath!

Joleen is going to try to use the same logic in choosing a “tough” looking diaper bag. We’ll see.

Anyway, when I took the stroller out of the box, it came in a number of pieces. For the fun of it, I tried putting most of it together without looking at the directions (which I did), but toward the end, the directions became necessary!

Now this is a stroller!