Hospitality

I love the idea of hospitality.  I love thinking about having people in my home.  However, when it comes down to actually having people in my home I tend to freak out a little.  I think it's mostly is just my own insecurity.  I'm not much of a decorator, I'm not super organized, there's usually paper piles in at least 4 places.  So, obviously I have a problem.  Either I need to clean and organize better, or I just need to get over it and be who I am (which is organization by piles).  Part of my problem is that I tend to do more than one thing at a time and then don't have time to finish any of it and so it gets left until I have "time" which sometimes takes another month to get too!  I know, I've got issues. 

So, I had this great idea to host a fellowship for the church choir after the cantata performance this Sunday.  In my head, it's all great.  But now that it's just a few days away I'm looking at my house and freaking.  Everything does NOT have a place and it needs to like now.  So, you can imagine that I've been organizing, right?  Nope, I've been baking, or raking leaves, or doing laundry, sometimes school, looking for new recipes.  You know, fun stuff.  Tomorrow I'm going to do what I do with the boys when there is a lot of little things to do and they get overwhelmed.  Set the timer.  Yep, 10 minutes in each area on a rotation.  I'll let you know how it goes.  But, until then know that I've made 24 mini pumpkin loaves, a batch of peanut brittle, 7 loads of laundry (including making my own detergent) and raked 7 big ole bag of leaves from the yard!