I am almost to the end of a long journey which is the reason my blog has been on the back burner for such a long time. We will be finished building as of Oct 30th and I will start moving in if things go according to plan that night. It has been such an amazing journey. I feel like a piece of me has opened up like never before in my life. In order to complete this task I have had to excavate my soul (not that I don't have more to do and learn and grow into. But I think for the first time in my life I am looking forward to the journey......adventure with more excitement than fear.
My whole family has worked for this new house and it is not quite our dream come true but it sure is a large chuck. My teenage daughters have put in as much work as I have and I have to complement them on that most teenagers that they know have little to no responsibility or go out into the world and work while they have been putting into our family mostly by babysitting for little or no pay. I am in awe of their spirit. It has been hard. I have to thank the amazing people at Habitat. I feel like I am apart of a community in a way that I have not felt in a long time. I have learned about building houses and gained skilled I will forever be grateful for and use!
The house began on Aug 6th when I went out to the property and cleared debris away and helped Jacob a Habitat foreman set the perimeter for the foundation. By Aug 20, we were putting up the walls. It is the most amazing experience to be apart of putting up your walls for your house! Most of the roof went up that same weekend!
We all drank a lot of water trying to stay hydrated! Aug in TN is NO Joke!
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| One of the most exciting things about our Habitat is that we build energy star houses with a much high insulation R-value than a regular house (regular house in our area require R-15 , Habitat does R-19 on the interior and R-5 on the exterior ) |
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| Drywall is up. Let's paint! |
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| Here's Jacob helping to keep us laughing while working us so hard! |
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| Jacob teaching; Definitely some kind and patient teachers. |
