Matt and I hosted my household for Thanksgiving once more this 12 months. It was great, and we had such a very good day. For the second 12 months in a row, we opted to have a Thanksgiving brunch as an alternative of the usual turkey and dressing dinner. Fairly truthfully, all of us a lot want breakfast and brunch meals to turkey and dressing, so it really works out completely. This tater tot casserole has grow to be a favourite for us, and this 12 months I made these canned cinnamon rolls with a twist that had been completely wonderful! However sufficient about meals. This isn’t a meals weblog. 🙂
I’ve come to utterly LOVE internet hosting individuals in our residence. I’ve by no means been one who is of course gifted within the space of hospitality. Actually, once we first began internet hosting our Wednesday evening church group, I discovered myself in these first couple of weeks feeling a bit uptight and anxious as individuals really sat on my new velvet couch. 😀 Add a number of plates of meals in our lounge to that equation, and I used to be initially feeling like I had made a mistake in opening up our residence for use for these gatherings.
But it surely didn’t take lengthy for me to recover from that. I in a short time (after about two weeks) realized that the enjoyment of our residence really getting used and loved by others far outweighed any potential negatives like meals being dropped on the couch. Sofas may be cleaned, however even when I needed to stay with a meals stained couch, relationships with different persons are a lot extra essential than issues. And I like that our house is getting used to construct these relationships and create enjoyable recollections.
I actually attempt to keep that mindset of gratitude for what we now have, and thankfulness that Matt and I can use it for functions past simply the 2 of us. I actually hope to do extra of that in lots of extra methods sooner or later. Whereas hospitality isn’t my pure gifting, I’ve come to actually take pleasure in studying tips on how to be extra hospitable, and tips on how to be a very good hostess. I’ve acquired a protracted approach to go, I’m positive. However I like that it will get me out of my consolation zone and stretches me in areas the place I have to be challenged and develop.
However talking of difficult me… 😀 . I’ve to confess that I’ve grown a bit bored with having to do that…
Since Matt and I don’t have a eating room in the meanwhile, I pushed the entire furnishings again in the lounge and put a folding desk (with a tablecloth) and chairs in the course of the room so we might eat. As soon as we had been completed consuming, we moved the desk to the aspect by the home windows and used it to place out our finger meals that we snacked on for the remainder of the day. (After which it acquired piled with bins from deliveries on Friday.) Then I introduced within the two recliners from the sitting room…
…after which I introduced the TV from our residence health club into the lounge and set it up on the mantel.
So my fairly little lounge that usually appears all put collectively like this…
…turns into this once we host Thanksgiving.
And whereas it appears fairly a bit totally different once we host our Wednesday night group (since we don’t want a TV for that), we do have to maneuver furnishings round to make room. The couch will get pushed again in opposition to the credenza, similar to you see within the pictures above. Matt’s recliner will get introduced in. The 2 purple chairs get pushed again. The aspect desk with the lamp by the couch will get moved out of the room. After which additional chairs (stacking chairs) are introduced in.
All of that to say that I attempt to keep my perspective of thankfulness for what we now have. I need to be content material with the place we’re proper now, as a result of at any second, one thing might occur to fully derail our plans for including on to our home. And if that had been to occur, I don’t need to be devastated. I don’t need to put a lot hope into issues that I might let my pleasure of internet hosting and being with individuals be stolen as a result of I’ve to go on indefinitely being somewhat bit inconvenienced every time we host individuals in our residence.
On the similar time, I discover myself eager for that addition that may enable us to have a everlasting eating room, a a lot bigger lounge, far more room for extra individuals, and a a lot bigger bed room (with very secure and handy egress in case of emergency) for us.
It’s difficult dwelling on this in between house — the house between gratitude for what we now have and eager for extra and higher. And generally I really feel responsible after I discover myself eager for extra and higher once we’ve been so blessed and have been given a lot as is.
So the place are we on the addition? Ready. We’re nonetheless ready. After I met with the architect a few months in the past, I knew I’d should get on the finish of the road similar to everybody else, and it might be a little bit of a wait. I believe he’s lastly engaged on our plans, so it might nonetheless be a few weeks earlier than they’re completed. So…we wait.
After which after that? We’ll most likely should get on the finish of extra traces and do an entire lot extra ready. And that brings me proper again to gratitude and contentment…and endurance. I’m attempting! I actually am. 😀 However some days are tougher than others in that space. Within the meantime, I’ll proceed to seek out pleasure in internet hosting individuals in our residence, sharing our residence with others, seeing individuals sit on our couch with plates stuffed with meals, and pushing furnishings round as wanted to make room for individuals.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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