Risen Acres 1
Hello to everyone! Two years ago my husband and I had a dream of building our home on at least two acres. We bought our land of 2.33 acres in Lake Wales in 2018. We were finally in a position to move forward and sell our home of fourteen years in Winter Haven.
I have to be honest, when we sold or home of fourteen years I was so ready to move on to our dream home. For others, maybe that person who has a home that long enough will think of all the memories that was made and maybe cry. I had no tears to cry over this home and I honestly felt relief flood over me, like a burden had been lifted. I never liked the location of our home. Location! Location!
My mind was already focused on our dream future home and the memories that will be made there. I looked forward to living in Lake Wales. Lake Wales is county living and quiet. In my mind I had pictured all our farm animals and seeing my little girl getting eggs and experiencing life differently than my own childhood. I did not grow up with having chickens, eggs, ducks, cows....you get what I am saying. Also, the sunsets are to die for!
I didn't have a bad childhood. My childhood was normal.....for me. I was raised in a Pentecostal church and I loved every minute of it. I loved that my parents introduced me to the Almighty. I loved the church I was raised in. I often find myself thinking of my childhood days in church and sometimes wishing I could go back and see everyone and really appreciate my church life even more at the time.
Of course life moves on. Fast forward, I am married to my husband, this December will be eighteen years, and we have one daughter. Why one child? Well, I remember like it was yesterday, when we got married, I wanted my husband all to myself. I had my husband to myself for ten whole years. We got married young. In those ten years my husband and I had to learn to sacrifice, letting go of stupidity, working together, giving in to each other, communication, and learning to keep loving even in tough times, and learning to grow together. We all know marriage is hard all by it self with out adding to it. I don't care who you are no one has the perfect marriage. To make a marriage work takes both people to wake up everyday and choosing to stay married!
Of course in those eighteen years of my married life I have had to experience divorce. No! my husband and I are not divorced but the divorce of my parents. Oh ya, then my daughter is autistic. She is on the lower end of the autistic spectrum. When an autistic child starts ABA therapy, whew!, the MELT DOWNS! I remember asking God how much more am I supposed to take? I remember crying at night in a corner and just not understanding why all this was happening. What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. Bad things helps us to be able to face the bigger problems that we are promised that will come in life.
Lets go to last year 2021. We closed on our future home on November 2021. As we walked into the title company I remember hearing church bells ringing in the distance and the door closed behind us and we signed our life away. Funny thing was as we walked in with the bells were ringing and as soon as we opened the door to leave the bells began to ring again. Weird!
Here is a picture of our future home.
Land before being cleared.
Land being cleared.
Land is cleared!
Concrete is being poured for the stem wall.
Dirt is being filled and compacted and getting ready for the slab.
The builder getting ready to dig the footer.
Dirt is being filled and compacted and getting ready for the slab.
Almost ready for the concrete to be poured for the slab.
We have walls! Yay!
Well is getting dug.
Frame work is done.
We waited for two months for the trusses to be delivered.
My husband and I go over the road from Florida to Texas. We own our own semi under the company Ruben & Sons Logistics. Because we are over the road we don't get to see certain steps of the house being built. We missed the trusses being put on the house.
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