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  • 20 Hospitality Tips to Teach the Kids Before Company Comes

    20 Hospitality Tips to Teach the Kids Before Company Comes

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    Company is coming! Is your family stressed or blessed? This post explores how we can nurture a spirit of welcome in our homes—one that sees people not as burdens, but as blessings. Hospitality is more than entertaining. Inviting people into our homes offers rich opportunities to model compassion, connection, and the joy of shared presence. I'm sharing 20 tips to teach the kids before company arrives. But first, they need to know why hospitality matters.

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    Have you heard popcorn ceilings are popular again? No? Perhaps you’ve watched numerous home improvement shows where the removal of popcorn ceilings topped the to-do lists. Or, maybe you’ve overheard hate speech directed toward ceilings with "cottage cheese." That’s what happened to me. Rumors of its inferiority were circling when we built our house in 1999. But I was so happy and thankful for the opportunity to build a house I didn’t mind declining a more expensive smooth ceiling. I’ve always been 10 years behind the trends anyway. By the time something begins to grow on me, it’s out of fashion again.

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