Rearranging the house

The time has come for mom and dad to move back upstairs to their own room. In case you haven't read (or don't remember) the earlier posts, we moved mom and dad's bed onto the main floor and fashioned the family room into a temporary bedroom. This way mom wouldn't have to climb the stairs every day. Now that her strength is back, they decided now is the time to go back into their room upstairs. They got a little over zealous about it if you ask me, we actually caught the two of them carrying part of their mattress up stairs by themselves. We did get some help from some of the men in the ward yesterday. They picked up some dressers mom and dad had purchased, brought them to the house and carried them up the stairs for them. And, they took the exercise equipment from upstairs and put it back into the family room downstairs. So, now mom and dad are back in their own room and seem to love it. They especially love the fact that they can go out at night onto the small deck attached to their room and look over the whole valley.
There has been a little bit of a glitch during the process of moving. The main floor has been turned upside down, moving things here and there, finding things that need to be sorted through, generally just trying to make the family room a family room again. Mom and dad decided to skip their aerobics class this morning because they figured they would get enough exercise going up and down the stairs today. What they didn't take into account was the fact that the aerobic class ends after 50 or 60 minutes. The rearranging of a house can last all day long (and even take several days)! Mom totally over did today and by late afternoon was utterly exhausted. Although she started the day like the energizer bunny at 6:00 am (I told you they were excited), she realized she just couldn't keep going all day and into the night like she used to. She hasn't been able to keep much food down today either. Dad said even his legs are aching from all they did today, we can't even imaging what mom must be feeling like. Sometimes I wonder if I need to stay home from work to babysit these two. They can get into so much trouble when they're not supervised. :) So, it was off to bed early for her. Hopefully she'll use tomorrow to rest up because they have a big family reunion to attend on Saturday. They are really looking forward to spending time with mom's brothers and sisters and their families. Dad is even going to do a magic show!