Playing Hostess, or, S&J's Restaurant

Lack of internet doesn’t solely account for the recent silence here on my blog…

serving between 13 and 19 for meals required some furniture re-arranging

Sara and I don’t actually own or operate a restaurant, but we felt a bit like we did the past four days as we hosted a group of 13 Americans here at Nahumba. In addition to accommodating the group at the guesthouse each night, we served multiple meals each day.

we offered cereal if someone didn't like the main breakfast meal
(the cereal was untouched both mornings)
I just thought it looked so cute it needed a photo and thus was blog-worthy :)

I could re-post the menus and details of multiple shopping trips necessary for such an endeavor, but I’ll spare you the excessive details. Instead, here’s a tidbit-sized flavor of life the past few days:

• Monday’s schedule: non-stop from 6:15am to 11:30pm
• Last week we opened a new bottle of dish soap; this week it’s halfway gone. No joke. Until Tuesday of this week, I don’t remember a time my fingers literally hurt from washing so many dishes!
• From Saturday to Wednesday, we baked four 9x13 cakes, four dozen muffins, and multiple loaves of bread. Remaining are two small pieces of cake and 1.5 dozen muffins.
• Our guests had a touch of authenticity this morning when they woke up to no running water… (sorry, it’s just how life is here)

In other news, Sara and I decided it was definitely time to purchase two of those relax-a-ble looking camp chairs out for sale along the road to town. So, between all the recent chaos, we managed to squeeze in two or three twenty-minute breaks—sitting on our front veranda and staring at the beauty of the large tree in our front yard... and forgetting about everything stressful... well... okay, so maybe we brought our pencils and paper and brainstormed meal plans...

it was still

respite. bliss. wonder.

If your week has been hectic like ours has been, I highly recommend taking a few moments to LEAVE the craziness to enjoy some simple beauty. 

For soul health. 

And if you can't seem to find the perfect place for such a moment, our front veranda is always available...