Pam's Place Update

We've begun week 2, and the workers arrived around 6:45 this morning.  The puppies were pretty insistent on barking them away, but I wouldn't hear of it.  I told them we've been waiting for a very long time to get this party started, and they would not be delaying it one second longer.  I'm not so sure they understood my words, but I got my point across when I sprayed them with a little water on their muzzles!!

Anyhoo, I left to get the kids to school and to get my yearly eye exam this morning (including being dilated...ugh!) and returned to a full yard of cars, trucks and bulldozers.  The concrete had been poured and many of the workers were smoothing it out!  Yea!! 

 

Ben and a new worker, Jason, were busy laying the joists for the subfloor in Pam's place and preparing to frame out windows and the front door.  Jeff, the project manager stopped by to confirm that windows are being ordered tomorrow and should be installed in about two weeks.  The concrete on the garage floor has to cure for about a week, but after that the walls should start going up.  Can I hear an "Oh yeah?!!"

The changes are great and I am so grateful to God for making this dream a reality.  It is amazing that it's been two years in the making. (I know, right?!  It was January 2011 that we put our Cabriolet house on the market to sell, with the premise that if it was in God's plan it would sell.) Time flies when you are not concentrating so deeply on the time it takes to get something done, but rather having gratitude for each moment He gives us.  If only it weren't so hard when you're in the middle of the muck!  I guess that's the lesson.  Don't focus on the muck.  Enjoy the moment!