...and then Grandma broke her hip...

 The timing of things has always been one of my favorite ways to see God at work. After the last post (late October), things really slowed down on the garage. For starters, we were able to get Thunder IN!

Look at that! Big van IN the garage!!

And a view from what it currently looks like from the outside.

And once we got that done, combined with colder weather, really lowered the motivation to keep pushing hard (time to get *other* things done around here!)

So, the van's IN. The ramp is done, but we still are going up the ramp into the mudroom and then having to duck down through the old door and up the same old two steps into the kitchen.

And then Grandma fell and broke her hip the week before Thanksgiving. They ended up doing surgery, but because of the severity of her Alzheimers, she has no idea what happened, and why she needs to try standing and moving - all she knows is it hurts - so we ended up having her move out of the hospital into a transitional care unit for the time being.

But now we have real motivation to get the opening between the entry and the kitchen done! Bumping her up and down steps to get back into the house does NOT sound like a good time for anyone!!

Here we all are celebrating Grandma's birthday with her at the TCU:

We managed to get everyone - even Owen - and were given the use of the activity room to fit all of us! That's a Snickers cake the kids made for her. :)