Sentences with phrase «having house guests»

We Brits may be know for being polite, but a new survey has revealed more than half of us do not like having house guests.

Even though our family gathering will be smaller this year I think some of these tips apply whether you are having house guests or not.

My husband and I love to entertain, but are concerned about the cost of having house guests.

Having house guests doesn't happen every weekend all year long.

Aside from beverages, the big cost you face having house guests in the summer is the protein that goes on your grill.

It won't necessarily be in the same year, by the same people, or in the same way, but I'm a big believer that what goes around comes around and so the actual cost of having house guests will be offset, somewhat, by the benefit of having them return the favour down the line.

Although it may feel strange to tell people who aren't your children what to do, having house guests enter your home when you have small children is challenging!

It's delicious and guilt - free, and I often make it the night before for a quick breakfast when we have house guests.

Some years ago we had house guest just about every weekend during the water sport season.

Extra pillow cases can always come in handy, especially if you have house guests.

We had a house guest bring their own food once because they didn't think we would be able to cook up to her standards.

We still do so, on occasion, but when we have house guests I don't want to be standing at the stove or waffle maker, especially when the kids need help eating.

Amazing girl...), had house guests, and already celebrated Thanksgiving on Sunday.

I happened to have a bag of Thomas «Everything Bagels» in the house recently, as I had a house guest that ate those.

Whether you're in the mood to finally check stuff off of your decorating list or have house guests / a party / a photo shoot on the agenda in the near future, sometimes you just want to make things happen in a matter of days.

I'm still recovering from a little too much fun over the weekend — we had some house guests, and spent the weekend biking, watching live music, eating tacos, and enjoying a few cocktails.

I have not tried this but it looks interesting especially if you have house guests and need a few meals ready to prepare.

We have a house guest arriving and will be leaving for Round Top.

When you have a house guest, this is a fun way to display their bath towels.

If you have house guests, whether related to you or not, their personal property can be covered as well!

The reason you have house guests — aside from familial obligation — is because it is fun.

This hit home the week I read the book because we had a house guest named Caroline, who retired at age 60 to travel the world.

If you believe your pet may be entirely uncomfortable with change or if you plan to have house guests over the holidays who may not get along well with your pet, Sherman suggests considering boarding at a kennel — even if you are in town.

This last weekend, I had a house guest.

(I have house guests and can not spend any more time on this!).

I have house guests coming this weekend and I need to put together a welcome tray for their visit.

What a great idea!!!!!! We have opened our home to ministry and have house guests staying with us.

We have house guests a few times a year to stay in touch with close friends and family.

Not exact matches

The company says it has more than 1.5 million listings - homes, apartments, guest rooms, even houseboats and tree houses - in more than 34,000 cities in 190 countries.

San Francisco — based Airbnb, a sort of hotel booking site for couch surfers, allows people who have extra space (like a spare room, guest house or sofa) to rent it out to travellers looking for a place to stay; «trust scores,» guest reviews and support from Airbnb staff give the site a sense of community that's missing from competitors Craigslist or Kijiji.

Cameron House said on its website that it had closed to arriving guests for at least the next two days, citing an «ongoing incident.»

Now it's standard for high - end restaurants like Eleven Madison, Per Se or Noma to suggest beer pairings for their dishes; many even have house cicerones (beer sommeliers) to help guide guests.

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced Thursday that it had reached a voluntary agreement with Airbnb to monitor whether some hosts on the platform act with racial or other forms of bias when choosing guests.

The co-founder and partner of Retail Advisors Network points out that Leon's desired market positioning pits it against furniture companies such as CB2 and EQ3, which already have proven track records of selling exquisite products that stoke envy among house guests.

The place was also crammed with cheap furniture, double beds in every room, and had signs taped up throughout the house admonishing guests not to throw parties or make loud noises, she says.

In San Diego, two real estate professionals who asked to remain unnamed said homeowners» associations have been plagued by long - term tenants turning houses into «youth hostels» in the area, typically using Airbnb to book guests.

Perhaps you already own a small resort and want to sell it to buy one that is bigger and would enable you to house more guests?

Airbnb's critics have called listings like these «Airbnb hotels,» or apartments rented in already tight housing markets for the sole purpose of booking short - term guests.

Does your home have a guest house, mother - in - law suite, or even just a spare bedroom?

Many of us have spent the past months finding similarities between Francis of Assisi and Francis of Buenos Aires, who took up residence in a guest house in Vatican City rather than the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace.

But instead of feeling spiritually uplifted and civically engaged by attending an Islamic celebration in the White House, the Muslim guests were shocked and dismayed when they heard the President say, «Israel has the right to defend itself.»

The House Republican leadership has already started the process with their proposal for low - skill guest worker programs.

to do service in such a way that the poor guest may not feel he is partaking of some charity but as if he had come to the Guru's house which belonged to all in equal measure.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

For if we turn our backs on the amazing rational beauty of the World we live in, we should indeed deserve to be driven therefrom, like a guest unappreciative of the house into which he has been received.»

Suppose one of you has an unexpected guest during the night, he says, and you have nothing in the house to give him to eat.

On Tuesday the Vatican announced Francis had opted to stay in room 201 at Case Santa Marta, the Vatican guest house, instead of moving into the palatial papal apartment.

Seven months later Katie was pregnant again, and Luther repeated a phrase which had been made before on the difficulties of a mother swiftly pregnant again while still nursing a previous infant: «It is difficult to feed two guests, one in the house and the other at the door.»

After the extreme emotion of Friday's liturgy, silence is necessary, like the silence in the house after a funeral when the guests have left, and you no longer have to keep a brave face.

Already so old that it was no longer in regular use by the local Wettin princes, the castle was for military and special occasions, for hunting parties and security, and would sometimes be used to house an unexpected guest who wished not to be seen in the town.