How To Be a Good Hostess
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 9:13PM When your guests arrive, do not meet them at the door, because you are putting your daughter's new comforter on her bed; it had to be moved from the drying rack in the hallway downstairs, and right before your guests arrive is a great time to relocate it.
Go to prepare a nice meal and check the date on the meat a few days too late so that you realize you can't use it; instead suggest that you order pizza.
Make your friend pay for the pizza. (Nooo...I offered, but she insisted.)
Watch as your friend picks up the messy schoolroom/playroom that you were supposed to have picked up so that the kids could sleep in there, and then notice that you don't have the car with the carseat in it in order to pick up the pizza that your friend paid for.
Ask your guest if you can borrow her car; it only makes sense...it's the only vehicle with a carseat in it right now.
Have your visitor watch over all the rest of the kids while at the same time picking up your son's room and the extra room upstairs so that the beds can get arranged, while you get your youngest to bed. Spend some quiet, peaceful time with your little one, giving her a bath and getting her settled in bed, listening from afar to Lollapolooza upstairs as you lay down in order to get your own child to sleep.
Once all the kids are in bed, put your friend to work cleaning out and rearranging your refrigerator in order to make room for all the sodas.
Finally relax in the armchair while she joins you to chat, facing you on the ottoman. It's a comfy ottoman.
I love my friends. I don't know why they hang around me, though.
Reader Comments (6)
A ha ha ha! I'm guessing she knew what she was getting into BEFORE she showed up so it's all good. Valuable friendships are worth putting up with each others' quirks.
I gave them warning ahead of time that I'm even weirder than I have ever been...but I have even astonished myself at how unprepared I am as far as the house goes. Yikes.
Haha!! I'm the exact same kind of hostess! We should hang out.
Beki, that makes me laugh...I remember your post about your friend that came over and the crazy experience you had, maybe a month ago. You're right, we would have fun together even if we had no food to eat!
Would it make you feel better to know that I kind of wish I could be more of that kind of hostess? Seriously. I get way too worried about the superficial stuff and feel the need to have my house to near perfection before having guests over. Even I know it is silly and unnecessary- but those perfectionist tendencies still kick in.
I love your style! I'll bet your friends do too.
Oh I'm so glad you linked to this. :-) It makes me feel much better - because if I were your friends in that situation? I would totally feel like we were teaming up to get through something together and I wouldn't think anything of ANY of that.