There is more progress on the house!
Getting ready for and finishing the footings:
And a foundation! (A foundation! Who would have ever thought we'd actually see the day!)
Because of our high water table, we had to raise the level of the house quite a bit. It was disorientating seeing that foundation so high above the ground and trying to imagine the house on top of it, but they've begin building the dirt up both in and around it, and now I can picture the house we are building a bit more naturally.
And we've even started having to make decisions! Not that we haven't made many many MANY decisions already: where to put the house on the property, how to angle it, where to have the driveway entry, where to put the septic tank (when it couldn't go where it normally would due to ground water), and of course a million decisions with the house plan itself, not to mention deciding when and where to move our entire family while we tried to get the building permit. BUT, I didn't think we'd be deciding anything about the interior for months yet. At least not until there was wood and sheetrock. Only ... just today there were texts and calls about bathtubs and did we want the windows over the kitchen sink and the bathtub to be the size planned or a foot smaller? (which is what they will need to be if we want them to be able to open).
People keep asking me the projected time frame. I honestly don't know. Nine months? A year?
I'm trying to just think conservatively and assume we won't be in before next spring. But ... is that conservative enough? Will I be surprised and find myself needing to pack up this rental much earlier?
I don't know!
Time will tell.
(But I actually feel much more patient and much less anxious about everything now that the house is moving along and now that it appears we will in fact have a home to move into someday. It was all the impossible steps and all the waiting getting to the building permit that felt maddeningly discouraging and full of waiting through unknowns. This little unknown of "will we move in by Christmas or not until the end of the next school year?" feels relatively easy to bear. Now I can just sigh a bit of relief and occasionally make decisions about bathtubs and what not.)
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