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I teach 2 knitting classes on Wednesdays. Yesterday I found out one of my ladies is the Mother of a girl we knew at church when we first moved here. I had no idea. She said something that made me "sit up". It was the third time recently that something we did in the past that was so "no big deal" that I did not remember it or thought nothing of it.
She said that I baked a cake for her daughter. I remember her daughter (after finding out who her daughter was) fundraising to go on a mission south of the border somewhere. Apparently there was a dinner and I baked a "beautiful cake for her". In the words of the Mother, 'I will never forget that."
Sunday when ny youngest son called, he told us he had heard from one of his friends who had stayed with us when his parents threw him out (his brother stayed with us for a while too). I remembered the boys but was surprised to hear how much it meant the the boy and that he would mention it after all these years. He said, "I will never forget that."
A couple weeks ago when my potter called to talk to me and I was not home, he had a conversation with DH and talked about the first time we had met and that we had bought him breakfast. that meant so much to him that we did that. Neither of US remember doing it - it would just have been something we do. And he also daid, "I will never forget that."
For me, it was a gift of honey at Christmas from someone at work who had no reason to have given me a gift other than he wanted to (no ulterior motive as he was gay).
All this is to say, we never know when or what small thing we do will be the "important thing" we do for someone. And as innkeepers, we never know when a small kindness or little thoughtful gesture is going to be THE THING a guest will always remember. Just a food for thought.
She said that I baked a cake for her daughter. I remember her daughter (after finding out who her daughter was) fundraising to go on a mission south of the border somewhere. Apparently there was a dinner and I baked a "beautiful cake for her". In the words of the Mother, 'I will never forget that."
Sunday when ny youngest son called, he told us he had heard from one of his friends who had stayed with us when his parents threw him out (his brother stayed with us for a while too). I remembered the boys but was surprised to hear how much it meant the the boy and that he would mention it after all these years. He said, "I will never forget that."
A couple weeks ago when my potter called to talk to me and I was not home, he had a conversation with DH and talked about the first time we had met and that we had bought him breakfast. that meant so much to him that we did that. Neither of US remember doing it - it would just have been something we do. And he also daid, "I will never forget that."
For me, it was a gift of honey at Christmas from someone at work who had no reason to have given me a gift other than he wanted to (no ulterior motive as he was gay).
All this is to say, we never know when or what small thing we do will be the "important thing" we do for someone. And as innkeepers, we never know when a small kindness or little thoughtful gesture is going to be THE THING a guest will always remember. Just a food for thought.
