Remember the Foundation

This month has been full of some ups and downs.  And I'm told this is the normal for the building process, so I'm just going to go with it.

The ups were when we got the forms placed for the foundation!  It was pretty exciting to be able to stand in a place and say 'this' will be our view from this room...'this' is what we will see when we open the door...things like that!  For a visual person like me, seeing the outline of the house really made it feel like a reality.

On the day of the pour for the footings for the concrete, we had the inspection and everything looked well and good....until he asked for the compaction report on all the rock we put under the foundation to fix the drainage issues.

Dum, dum...........DUM!!!!

For reasons I'm not going to dwell on, there was no compaction report done by our dirt guy.  So, we had to cancel the concrete and get the inspection done.  Which naturally meant more money and more time delays.  When the report came back it was noted that certain spots in the rock were not compacted as tightly as they would like-mainly around the edges- and there was more space between the forms and the rock than they would like to see.

What does that exactly mean?  It means that our dirt guy has to bring in more rock, re-compact certain areas and then bring in even MORE rock to elevate the edges of the dig out to be closer to the bottom of the forms.  Which means more money.  But, obviously, this can't be done without moving the forms that have ALREADY been laid for the foundation.  Which, again, means more money to re-place them once the rock is correct.

Add in some crazy cold temperatures so the ground is frozen and we have to wait until it thaws a bit and you have a scenario of 'two steps forward, TEN steps back'...and a very frustrated me.  I'm beginning to understand why we get those sympathetic looks when we tell people we are building a house!

But, with all the setbacks, I'm still trying to stay positive that there is a reason for it.  In fact, God has blessed us in many ways during this time, as if to say 'Remember, I GOT this!'.  So, I am trying to be diligent to remember OUR foundation and the blessings He has given us, especially in this season!  The baby steps forward on the house are still that...steps forward.  And even though it's not necessarily in the timeline we'd like to see, it's still a goal that will happen and this labor of love will be so worth it in the end!