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Holiday Company

11/26/14 Each year for Thanksgiving we have company stay at our home. Typically Darrell and Lauren, sometimes Doug, and sometimes all 3. It is the same routine every year. For three days I clean, vaccuum, dust, mop, launder sheets and prepare from the basement on up. The kids get in on all the cleaning and get very excited at the idea of company. We rarely ever have company and to have someone staying overnight is a big deal to them. They start asking when will the company come, when will they get here? They are excited and can't wait for them to arrive. Every year the kids are tucked in bed before the company arrives,usually very late. The next morning, the company, having the day off and getting to bed late, sleeps in until just before we leave for Thanksgiving dinner. The kids are up early in the morning of course excited that there are guests in the house.  They wait and wait and want to wake them up so bad. They end up seeing them as the walk to the shower, then leave the house. That is what it has been like each year we have company. Kind of a big let down for a kid! This year was an even bigger bummer as the kids waited for our guests to arrive. Last minute they called to say they were staying in Des Moines due to snowy roads. 

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