Four Moms Q and A

 The Four Moms: Smockity Frocks, Raising Olives, Life in a Shoe, and Me

This week is our Q and A session.


Unfortunately, I forget that this was coming up, and I've been answering several questions on the blog.


For instance- 


Somebody asked me what features I would and wouldn't have if we were building our house today.  I answered that here, and so did several readers (see the comments, they are gold).




I answered two questions about my pop culture post here- one of them being 'why do you wish you had not given the girls separate bedrooms?.


I answered this one in the comments to the post (are the books in that bookcase really all just cookbooks?  Why, yes, yes they are).


I also answered the following question about hospitality:
My husband hates to have people over. What do you suggest?

You may just not be able to practice hospitality if your husband is averse.

OR you can invite a quiet grandmama, or staid older retired couples over to visit in the mid mornings or afternoons.
You could have them for brunch or tea, or you don't have to serve food at all. Have a small and intimate card making party, or a card writing party for somebody who is sick.

If your husband doesn't care who comes over when he's not there, invite a couple of college girls over to help you bake cookies for the boy scout troop, or to study for a test, or have the fourth grade Sunday school class over to play games in the backyard or to build bird houses- all during times your husband will not be annoyed.

Or, if he doesn't want anybody over ever, whether he is there or not, help somebody else with hospitality. Get together with a friend who is having people over and offer to supply some home-made bread or bags of chips.

And pray about it.


Other reasons why hospitality may not be something you can do just now:
Illness.
Homelessness.


Here are three things Hospitality is NOT:
1. Entertainment.
2. A Pampered Chef or a Tupperware Party (or anything like it)
3. A vague invitation to feel free to come by some time, unless the vague invitation is made more solid by a known history of being totally open to people dropping by and specifically having the recipient of that open invitation over by specific invitation some time..


Here are some things hospitality does not have to have:
1. Food
2. A clean house
3. Cloth napkins

Here are some things hospitality is:

Using your home in meeting other people's needs, and those needs can be physical, spiritual, or heart related- friendship, community, relationships

That's all i can think of.


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What do you wish I'd answered?