Hospitality.

Fantastic two-part post at Et Tu, Jen.  (Follow the link at the bottom of her post to get to the second part).  The post is a few weeks old; but the story has been continuing in several later posts.

It's about what happened to her when she reluctantly invited the neighborhood children in to tea.  From the second part:

One of the things that stood out is that a few of you referred to me as having "that" house -- you know, the house in the neighborhood where all the kids hang out after school, where there's a constant flow of people in and out the door, where mom always has some yummy munchies on hand. I told my husband about all the great comments, and said in disbelief: "People seem to think that I'm 'that' mom with 'that' house...and I think they might be right!"

I know I sort of touched on this in my last post, but let me just say this again: nothing could be more unlikely. [People who know me personally are nodding vigorously at their computer screens right now.]

(The followup post about DISHWASHER CHAOS is especially good, and contains some lessons I really need to learn myself.)

Comments

[Jennifer (Et Tu?)]

Thanks for the link!