A little recap: Week 1: Demo, initial inspection, stake out space, footers Week 2: Footer inspection, lay brick skirt Week 3: Begin framing, week cut short due to rain (thus the tarps!) Hardest part of process: the noise!!! And the interruptions. Don’t even get me started on how hard it is to have a homeschool day in the midst of this. Best part of process: knowing how much the extra space will help our homeschool days in the future, constant entertainment for our kids and our neighbors. We talk to way more neighbors than we ever have before, and at least three have told us that we’re inspiring them to…

Two expressions that we use a lot around here these days are: “The condition” (addition) and “The instruction!” (construction, coined by Noah and always said with an exclamation mark, as in, “The instruction is digging!!!” or “Those little boys left their instruction at our house!!!”) Here’s our house on Day One. After we posted that the addition had started, lots of people said, “Wait, you didn’t mention that this was finally happening!” The truth is, we didn’t know it was finally happening until Monday morning at 8:00 am, when the crew arrived. Last fall-ish, we thought we’d finally found a builder, and scheduled him to start the first of the…