I guess you could say it was a 'step up' from the trailer place we were living in...

It was now just called a 'place' and I clearly remember the hollowed out plot of land next to us...

Structural foundation for something that never got off the ground?

Maybe...that and living without her for four months and her smile when she came back...

That turned out to be a good thing though-the empty plot of land (and smile of course) because when she was finally home from the hospital I collected the wildflowers growing there and decorated her hair with them...