This weekend we hosted a party for our middle son who graduated early from high school.
This was the first big gathering we've hosted since The Nest Fest in October, and we wanted to have the party in our backyard.
We completely, 100%, undeniably underestimated the amount of work that needed to be done just to get our house and yard in basic hosting mode.
Since October, things have quietly piled up all over our home and property.
When considered one at a time, the pile of goodwill stuff under the carport, the leaning tower of broken down boxes by the trash, and the overstuffed hutch with the drawers that can barely open don't seem that daunting.
But multiply that times one hundred.
We had a hundred small things that needed our attention, things that if we would have tended to on the front end, would have taken 15 minutes at a time, but we've been busy and tired and focusing on other projects and suddenly, we realized how much we've put off.
