Week 2 - Foundations
We started this blog to encourage ourselves to share this journey. Friends, this last week is hard to put into words. We have a driveway. We have a foundation. Our first walls go up soon.
A feeling of anticipation, excitement, relief, mixed with fears of the unknown unknowns, and an undeniable sense of calm and steady next steps that lives right on top of a jittery-drank-too-much-coffee excitement, like the kind you get when you see a Christmas present under the tree with your name on it. This rollercoaster we call life is full of moments where you build up and prepare, hoping to one day be able to take another step.
We are already at a point the project where the room sizes feel too small, the doubt starts creeping in that our forever home surely can’t fit inside of this small of a space. How wide is 16 feet? It’s wide enough that in person it feels ridiculously wide, but in a car, you think “well, I’m glad it’s not any smaller.” Our driveway is the right amount of wide in parts and narrow in parts, and the path never seems to stop, only to wander around the next little curve.
Folks, all of this and we’re just looking at a bizarre labyrinth of footers, stakes, pea gravel, large sized gravel, and a bunch of dusty dirt. Everywhere there’s dirt. And as if sugarfield felt like it needed everyone to remember it was very recently a field where crops were planted and harvested, life, in the form of plants and trees, are sprouting up everywhere!
Joshua’s mom and dad visited the footers with us last week. Elizabeth’s dad keeps a watchful eye on trucks coming and going, and the noises they make. Soon, Elizabeth’s mom will be home from her most recent journey and there is a new driveway and huge piles of dirt everywhere to greet her.
We’re always changing, growing, anticipating, planning, and learning how to both be in the moment and also capture our memories. We’re anxious to get started, to be done, to have enough time to document, and to skip on ahead to tackle the next parts.
In short, we’re so excited this is really happening.
