Update on Mom

This is not a project post, be forewarned. This is for my lovely readers (stop it, you're all just hug-you-like-a-bunny adorable) who continue to send me sweet emails or ask about Mom in their comments, and I thought it was high time you got a post of all GOOD news!
If you need a refresher on our past misadventures, click HERE.

First of all, she's steadily progressing. She's in great spirits and planning for the future. We have close family friends that visit her also, so she stays buoyed.

Mother is now sitting up in a wheelchair, and is taking 20 steps with a walker in rehab. She's slowly regaining use of her left side, and I can honestly notice improvement every morning! She's up to 119 pounds too!

We did not, unfortunately, make the Thanksgiving goal of bringing her home, so we packed up pumpkin pie, hot cider, and the dog and headed over there that morning for a little visit. 

This little tree, freshly decorated by Thom, is in her room now since we decided to have her back surgery scheduled and done as long as she's still there. (Remember her spinal stenosis? The thing I moved her down here to fix in the first place?) We're looking at a couple more months, but in the meantime, I'm going to plan her mother-in-law quarters and hire a contractor to get that under way since she just can't navigate the downstairs bath in a wheelchair!

Which means I can sledge that bath apart...
While I redo the kitchen in stages...
After we paint...
And design the gazebo...
And resurface the patio...

What time can you guys be here again?

Now scroll down for an actual project.