Young Girl Helps 85-Year-Old Woman Repair Her Broken Home

Using Surgical Skills at Home as a Mom

2.5 years ago, we bought a major fixer-upper. During the buying process, we met with the seller — a sweet elderly woman — and walked through the home several times. At the time, our kids kept asking, “Why do we keep going to that old lady’s house?” And the name stuck. So to our family (and now yours), it’s just The Old Lady House. This wasn’t our first rodeo. We’d flipped a run-down house before, made it beautiful, lived in it, and sold it. Our plan was to do that again — buy, renovate, sell. Bu