Southern Hospitality

The term Southern Hospitality is certainly ringing true for us.  In the short month we've lived in our new home we have received several lovely gifts from neighbors.  The above photo was a gift presented to us last night from the Buzby's.  I adore fresh flowers but more interesting is the handmade pottery the flowers came in.  It comes from a well known area called Sea Grove where generations of potters have lived since the 1700s.  They even sell maps, much like the Beverly Hills maps to stars homes, of the potters homes and studios where you can visit and they do a huge event in November which is already on my calendar!

This beautiful arrangement was given to us last week by our neighbors the Amin's.  Hatel herself made this for us which means a lot because she is a busy dentist with her own practice.  Very talented.  They are very warm, sweet neighbors.

The first week we moved in, our next door neighbors the Glover's gave us a gorgeous fruit basket and a very nice bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon.  A week after that they invited us over for a glass of wine to meet their visiting family.  Last night we had neighbors over for a glass of wine to get to know them better, the Buzby's, who gave us the sweet pottery and flowers.  This neighborhood is so social, we are often over at neighbors or neighbors are here.  Even down the street we met a lovely family, the Martinez's, who have two young daughters, Cameron and Sophie, who Gracie is crazy about and last weekend we hung out in their backyard making smores over a large cauldron they bought and we all sat on tree stumps for stools.  It was so cool and so fun!  We have actually never been this social; the southern hospitality just brings it out in us.  For those of you who know Rob well know that he's in heaven.  He's the outgoing one and always up for entertaining, whereas I like to cocoon in my home and entertaining kind of stresses me out.  But when you are having people over for just wine or dessert, it takes the stress off of entertaining and puts the emphasis on enjoying people.  It's a win-win!