Day 9 - December 28

Yesterday, Don went out to the homesite in the middle of the afternoon to take some pictures. He sent all 31 pictures, and I flipped through them pretty quickly because, honestly, the piles of dirt and big holes in the ground kind of all looked the same to me. It had been difficult for me to see real progress, mostly because I don't understand everything that's going on in this step. This picture is from yesterday, Day 9, but you could've told me it was from Day 4 and I would've believed you.

And then I came to this picture, and thought, "oh hey - those look like real walls!"

And then, this one. The window in the basement bedroom! It's just like it's a real house!

I've told Don and others that even thought I know this will be our home, it hasn't felt real to me. Yes, we picked out every little detail and I think I could draw out the floor plan, to scale, from memory. But it hasn't felt like the home where we'll be living. I haven't been able to picture myself driving there after work, cooking dinner on the stove we chose, or sitting out on the upper-level deck as the sun goes down. It hasn't felt like ours. It's almost felt as if we've spent months designing a house for someone else to live in. And somehow, that picture of the basement window got me a little bit closer to believing that it's ours.