Thankful Thursday!!!!

I started this whole blog so that I could have a place to write our adventures on our move to Kansas and all the other stuff that happens in our MagicalMundaneMadness Life.  There has been quite a bit to write about in the last seven months. 
I had the opportunity to go home for a whole entire month. Home, being California.  The month, April.  I hit the ground running in Cali.  I was there for my Sis's wedding festivities, after all.  We had a Bridal Shower that I had been planning for six months to execute.  But, what I wasn't planning on was having to interior decorate my mom's home before the Shower.  I spent the first week there, hanging curtains, wall deco, mirrors.  Adding pillows, candles and flowers in vases here and there.
Mom was so grateful.  I think we added to the house enough in her own style.  I tried to do the things she would want, not what we Girls (her daughters) would want.  It makes a difference when you listen, to what is really being said.  She didn't want a lot, just enough.  It was hard on her being alone at the house, and dad being gone for a week at a time. Take all of us girls gone from home, me and mine in a state at least two days drive away.  Empty nest.
So, together we breathed life into the house.  My brother, Grin, had painted the interior while we were away.  She just wanted things to make it looked "lived in".  By the time we had everything ready in the house, it was time to turn around and pull everything together for the Bridal Shower. Again, we were on a dead run.  It was a success, she loved it, they loved it and it made for wonderful memories.
My whole entire trip went like this on a heated run from one end to the other.  By the time I got home, I was ready for some sit down time.  Well, its been nearly two weeks and I can count maybe one day that I have had to be lazy.  The cycle is endless.
I'm thankful to be home though.  I may still be running around like a MadMan but, now I get to do it at home.  Hear the birds sing, have an argument with Nae the way a parent can do when you don't have other sets of eyes on you.  Although, poor Nae, it doesn't matter where we are, reprimanding still is effective.
We mowed this huge yard, watered, weeded and hose down the front porch this last weekend.  She maybe old, this house, but she's home.  I'm thankful for her.