What was supposed to be a delay until mid-June wound up being just a week or so. We were quite mad before being ecstatic. Our project manager had just told us that he was ordering his guys to wrap our studs in plastic during the truss delay. Our neighbors wood got wrapped – but not ours. We were a bit mad and about to contact him to find out the story – when the trusses magically appeared at our house!
They got to work after a day or two and before long, we had a 2nd story and a roof!
We’re still getting that taste of our future life. Adelaide goes to school every day. We go to Food Truck Friday downtown. Basketball downtown on Saturday. Rinse & repeat. It’s been both fun and enigmatic. We look forward to the day when it’s not such an ordeal to get to town – like when we’re living there!
The school in town does “project-based learning”. It’s 6-8 week long projects that set the theme for learning. This theme was “don’t waste technology” – after learning that a bunch of the iPads and computers were always broken. So the kids in Adelaide’s class studied money for the costs, made charts, and wrote about technology. At the end of each “PBL” session, parents get to come to the classroom and see the students’ work. It’s a way to have min-conferences and feel like part of the school setting. We loved seeing Adelaide’s classroom and the work of her groups.
The house progress is now shifting to the interior. Some stud walls are going up – subflooring upstairs and the stairs! They even tar-papered the roof today!
The school year is wrapping up and we’ll soon be heading north to Illinois and Wisconsin for a few weeks. The kids and Karissa are excited to see their long lost friends and some familiar places. As excited as I am to see familiar faces & places, I’m dreading missing out on the house progress and the mostly comfortable life we have at the moment.
We’re holding our breathe that there aren’t any more major delays – after skirting this truss issue!