Thankful Thursday

Happy Thursday!

You know those moments when you realize that your life is whirling by you at break-neck speed? Every time you turn around another week has passed – or another month has passed, and you feel like it is all one big blur?

I am in the middle of one of those moments. I feel like someone turned up the speed of life when I wasn’t looking, and now I can’t find the dial to turn it back down. I am having a great time. A GREAT time!! I spend a wonderful weekend with Mended Little Hearts.

I love my life. I love love love it!! And I am so very Thankful that my life is mine to love!

Last weekend, after a relaxing get away, we spent 2 days finishing up a major backyard clean up. We started Mother’s Day weekend, my annual gift is garden and yard clean up – and finished it up Memorial Day weekend. After 2 years of storing building supplies and equipment, ignoring the overgrown parts of the yard along with random piles of rocks and dirt. Wow, did we have a lot of dirt, with very little grass. Playing outside with the kids was a filthy, head to toe, covered in Southern Red Clay mess. The kind of red clay that destroys clothing and shoes, and leaves a trail of red clay dust all through the house. The kind that stains the bathtub and is still left on the kids after an hour of soaking and scrubbing.

All that mess is a thing of the past though! We finished cleaning up that mess, graded the back yard and spread down 2 bags of grass seed…just to start out with. I think we are going to need more though. Although that really doesn’t matter…for the first time in 2 years we are going to have grass in our backyard!! We are going to be able to play outside in the backyard without saying “Hey, stay away from there, there could be Black Widows in that mess” and “Watch out for that bee’s nest in the ground over there” and “Yes, I know the backyard is all dirt, but that doesn’t mean you have to roll in it!” or “That is a pile of building supplies, not a playground and I am in no mood to take you to the emergency room, so get away!”

In 6-21 days, from this past Monday, we will have baby grass, and shortly after that we will be able to enjoy our backyard!! I am so full of Thankfulness over that, I am not sure what to do with myself!

As always, I am Thankful for my happy, healthy, wild little beasties that run around my house all day long driving me crazy, I am Thankful that we have a roof over our heads and for our wonderfully supportive group of friends and family and all the ways they help us.