Build it and they will come!

Since we've finished our upstairs apartment, we've had a steady stream of visitors. Some have stayed a couple of days, others a couple of months, and one family stayed a year. The apartment was finished in March of 2006 and since then, we've had 39 guests!

Our 3 German girls left last week, and we have a missionary couple coming in on Thursday this week. So I spent the morning cleaning, washing sheets and towels, and making the bed and preparing for our next visitors. It's really a cozy, comfortable little apartment and I wouldn't mind staying up there myself.

Isn't it inviting?

Since adding on so much space to our house, I do have a lot of bathrooms to clean now. This morning, I cleaned 4 toilets, 5 sinks (our bathroom has 2), 1 tub and 1 shower stall. We have 1 more tub which I didn't clean today because no one uses it.

After all that work this morning, when Andy suggested taking a hike this afternoon, I immediately said "yes." Although it was a little chilly, the sun was shining and in the woods, we were protected from the wind. We explored a trail we had never been on before and were pleasantly amazed at the beauty of the winter woods. The Dot & Brooks Evert Trail in Burlington County was only a 20 minute drive from our house and the trail itself took us about 50 minutes to hike. On the way there, I was observing how brown everything was: the fields and trees...just brown, brown, brown. But the woods were a lot more colorful with lots of holly trees, laurel and rhododendron bushes and snow. It was a beautiful woods and we were refreshed by having been there.There's nothing like a walk in the woods, surrounded by nature to invigorate the body, soothe the soul, and refresh the spirit. I think I'm ready to go back to work for a couple more days!

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