Rainy weather couldn't dampen Virginia Stahl's spirits today. She's never been so excited to move. "It's just so exciting, we've looked forward to it for a long time," Stahl says as she tears open a box for her mother Audrey Webb. At 85-years-old Webb doesn't skip a beat. She knows exactly how long a "long time" is. "A year ago today," Webb says. "But it was worth it." Stahl moved her mother into the old Champaign County Nursing Home a year ago on Wednesday. Stahl's mother-in-law Alberta Stahl followed soon after. "We thought it was just going to be a couple of months," Stahl says. But mold and ventillation problems at the new multi-million-dollar home kept pushing that day back. "They'd say one thing... then it'd be another," Webb recalls. "That would worry you get you all upset and nervous. Now I won't have to go through that anymore." "It's hard to really realize we finally here now," Stahl says while putting all of her mothers' trinkets in their place. There's no question these rooms are bigger and brighter than the old ones. Webb knows first-hand how badly the old home needed to be replaced. "The heat would go off sometimes and the water wouldn't be hot sometimes, it's old," Webb says. Her old room had a window the size of a computer monitor. This one has two huge windows. "It's just like someone turned on the sunshine," Stahl says as she soaks in her new surroundings. The mission now... is making this room home. "I'm going to get it fixed up look nice," Webb says as she looks up at her bare walls. "I want curtains for here." Next on the list... finding their way around. It took twenty minutes to get from Webb's room to Alberta Stahl's room today. "They said to follow the brown," Stahl says pointing to the color-coded floor. But in this big building... getting lost is easy to do. "It's like night and day," Stahl says smiling.
