Making Way

While writing the weekly posts on "Recovering the Lost Art of Home Making", I've come to a point in time where I'd like to share some of the things I've been working on.  As you can see by the title, we're "making way" for something new.

This particular piece of furniture is taking up residence in our living room.  My dining room is rather small, with base board heating around the 2 walls.  While we are hoping to change that in the not so distant future, it is not in the plans currently. 

One of our concerns has been, since joining a new "to us" home school group, is having enough seating for guests.  While we do have furniture in our living room, and chairs to spare if and when we need to pull them in to the living room, we don't have a full sized couch.  In order to "make room" for the full sized couch, we need to bless others with not just the china cabinet above, but also our old piano.

If you notice, they are sitting (or standing) side-by-side.  They take up the entire wall currently.  You can see the wall in the picture below.

Once we give away the piano and sell the china cabinet, we'll purchase our new sofa bed.  We're replacing the piano with a keyboard to put along the half wall.

To get a better feel for the room, if you click here, you'll see what I mean.  :0) 

Why are we doing this?  I'm glad you've asked!  We have purposed the past 2 or more years to invite families over for dinner to help me teach the children more about what it means to be hospitable.  This time of preparation has been a wonderful learning time for us to help the children to learn and to apply what they've learned about what it means to be hospitable.  They are not only learning how to be hospitable, but how to serve others as well.  This year, we will be practicing more "over night" hospitality with family coming to stay.  We had discussed getting 2 sofa beds at one point in time, so this is just the first step toward that goal.  We have discussed building a guest room in the basement along with partially enclosing the "living room" area there too.  We will proceed all in due time, of course. 

Through much planning, saving and wise purchasing, things will get done...all in due time.

Blessings,