Too much clothes talk. When I am a racing snake you can all advise me on what to buy.
Mitts - definitely not unreasonable, do they not have homes to go to?
Defluff are you ready for an epic.
We live in a 6 bedroom rambling farmhouse, in the main house are 5 bedrooms, 4 ensuite, we have our bedroom there, 2 B&B rooms, a spare B&B room and DD's room. Downstairs there is a large sitting room, dining room study and kitchen, hen we have a large utilty room, and through that is the DC's playroom, DS's bedroom and a shower room. These are invaluabel.
A typical day is get up, get DC's ready for preschool/nursery and drop them off for 8, then come back, if breakfast is asked for before 9 then DH starts it and when I get back I either take over and he goes to do some work or he carries on and I put the milk, juice etc out in the dining room and then do tea and coffee for guests and take out the breakfasts, usually manage to grab some brekfast then for me, before clearing plates, having a bit of a chat asnwering any questions, giving ideas on where to go. Then it is clear the dining room, do the washing up and then service rooms or clean and make them up for the next guests, doing the washing, ironing, booke work, walking dog grabbing lunch, banking, MNing, before pick up DC's at 3, then they come home, we may drop in on my parents, they have tea, DD goes swimming on a Thursday, then bath, bed for DS, bed for DD then supper for us. Guests usually come in at around 5, if we did it any earlier then we would never get out and about.
It is weird the first time when you have guests in, some like to chat others are rude but you just slap that smile on. Last week we had a dutch couple in and she liked to come in the kicthen in the mornings as we were doing breakfast for a chat, the family we have got in this week are lovely, been before, bought us flowers, what they pay for 4 nights wil pay the majority of the house bills for May. It is a strain to keep DC's quiet at times, DD knows that she has to be like a mouse in her room and come into our room quietly in the mornings which is why the playroom being in an annexe is a godsend, but we work to our own schedule, we get to spend a lot of time with the DC's and they see a lot of their father. The B&B pays for all the household outgoings, DH and mine extra work pays for our food and anything else we need such as clothes, books, days out, DD's riding and swimming.
We are lucjy that the house we have is an old family house that we are tenants for life of and therefor have no rent/mortgage to pay which takes a huge amount of pressure off.