ahhhh

Alright, alright, call me crazy (or lazy), but last night is the first night in awhile that we haven't had any guests and it feels so good.  I know this whole b&b thing is a dream of mine and I should want guests, and I do want guests, but it is just nice to have a morning off.

Don't get me wrong here, I'm really enjoying running the bed and breakfast. As much as I might initially flinch at welcoming new strangers into our home, by the end of breakfast, I usually like the guests enough that I wish they would stay for another night or even forever.  (It's a different story when it comes to the Swiss people who smoked in the bedroom, but let's not get into that now...).  I like when they like the pancakes or whatever else we've made them for breakfast, I like when they compliment us on how we've decorated or on how fantastically old the house is (even though I don't really have much to do with that).  I like hearing their stories and telling them where to go in Acadia, because they are, almost inevitably, going to Acadia.

But alas, I think I might be too much of a creature of habit for this business to work for me in the long-term...I'm so happy to wake up and not have to worry about entertaining somebody.  I'm so happy to sit here and sip my coffee for as long as I want.  Not having that voice in the back of my head telling me I should be cutting up kiwis for fruit salad or preparing whatever else we're making for breakfast that day. I am so happy to watch the morning news again. It is nice to have a peaceful morning to myself.  To sit back, breathe and enjoy. To know that if I wash any sheets at all today, they will be my own. Ahhh.