* Over half of the nights were spent with at least one of us sleeping in another household.
* Almost a quarter of the remaining evenings we were housing individuals in our tiny row home.
* We have shared dinner (or big breakfast) in our house with an additional 27 individuals.
* Met 13 friends, who we don't see often, for dinner and attended another three dinner parties at friend's homes.
* We have traveled five full days.
* Joshua went to Denver for the day for a meeting and was back in Camden in time for an evening meeting.
* I have been using my break from school to work for my dad -- painting part of a nursing home and re-doing old chairs in my brother's garage.
* We still have time to dress dogs in funny shirts.
All of this has been wonderful.
Don't know why I started calculating this. I was actually surprised by the results because I thought we've been busy, but not this busy. Joshua loves visitors and is a trooper through all the hordes of people we have tramping through the house all the time. He tries his best to speak some reason into my scheduling. There are just so many people I want to see ... and feed!
This past weekend, we purchased a mattress set and a few other items so that we can finally make our "activity room" into more of a guest bedroom. Pumping up the air mattress was becoming such a regular occurrence that we popped a hole in it!
So if you are thinking about visiting or stopping by for dinner, the answer is always a resounding YES! This may not seem like the logical conclusion if you incorrectly assume that this post is about how tired of traveling and visitors we are. That isn't what we are saying at all.
Truth: We love visitors.
Fact: You probably don't visit often enough.
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