by Eddie Pipkin
During the holiday season, we travelled a lot, and we hosted a lot. That means that sometimes we had guests sharing our home (no less than four different sets of guests over a month), and sometimes we were hosted by different sets of friends in their own homes. That’s a lot of logistics, figuring out shared meals, splitting bathroom time, coordinating coffee prep, moving cars around in driveways, and scheduling entertainment. Everybody has different needs and different schedules. From my experience, the path to promoting maximum happiness is to let everyone march to their own tune as much as possible. Let those different personal rhythms overlap and intersect and sometimes an awesome new tune is born!
When you are inhabiting a house with multiple personalities, there are some basic approaches to coordinating the day.
On one end of the spectrum is the “hands ful