a BIG answer to prayer...

...and we do mean BIG!


Saturday was a frustrating day having come to the conclusion (forced) that mommy is going to have to be in the wheelchair much closer to full time. Thank you so much for all of your prayer support - it has been felt.

Yesterday was a big emotional lift up as we followed through on a lead from the ham radio community. Steve and Sharon had talked to Grandma M about the possiblity of loaning us a van to use. They use it on Sundays to take their mom to church but generally not during the week and they wanted to help us out.

So at least temporarily we have this van available to us during the week:




Mommy got her wheelchair in and drove it home last night, making several stops and getting in and out. It is going to give her a new found independence. It has room in the back for the girls' carseats and mommy's wheelchair goes into the passenger spot as you can see from the photos above. When mommy is driving (which for now she still can) she can scoot from her wheelchair over to the driver's seat and when daddy is driving mommy can stay in her wheelchair.

There are a few peculiarities with it that never mattered if the driver was not the one in the wheelchair but will make a difference for us so we are hoping to take the van to the accessibility place today to see if those can be worked out. Please pray this morning that they are "easy fixes" or at least CHEAP fixes.

THANK YOU STEVE AND SHARON! 73.