Dear Reader Column 11-27-07

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Dear Reader,

I have no idea where my husband hid all of our junk--the stuff that normally sits on our tables and counters, but he found an out-of-sight place for each and every single thing before company arrived for Thanksgiving dinner. By the time our first guest rang the doorbell, around noon, my house looked as close to a photo layout in a magazine as it's ever going to get.

My husband and I are a cleaning and cooking team when we're getting our house ready for company. Through the years, (it'll be thirty this December) we've developed a seamless routine. My husband magically makes the junk disappear, I do the cooking. My husband vacuums the house, I do the cooking. My husband touches up the bathroom, I do the cooking. (Can you sense a familiar rhythm going here?)

And this year my husband even cleaned the linen closet and the car and I did the cooking. Why did we need to clean the linen closet and car before company arrived for Thanksgiving Dinner? Well, we didn't. But I noticed that the linen closet and the car both needed cleaning and since my husband didn't question those entries, when I added them to our "company-coming checklist," we now have an orderly linen closet and a shiny clean car.

We're having guests for Christmas dinner this year, too, so I plan on recycling our "company-coming" list. However, I did notice the other day that the kitchen cupboards really need to be relined and then we can't forget those five boxes of photos that I've been meaning to paste into a photo album...maybe it's time to make a couple of additions to our "company-coming" list.

Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.

Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com 
http://www.DearReader.com

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Comments

[kris campbell]

Hi-
I inadvertently deleted the first chapter to this Aunt Dimity. Is it posted somewhere??
So nice of you to do this! Love it.