Meet the Innkeeper, i.e. Me

Hi. I though maybe it would be nice for you to meet the girl behind the blog. I debated about how personal to get, & how professional to stay. I decided that the blog will be personal, my anecdotes of innkeepin', and our website (it's new, check it out hampsherhotelbnb.com) can be the professional face of the business. So, here it goes:                                                                 That's me, btw ---------------->
My name's Jenna. I'm a local. I love aprons. If I can find a way to sneak basil in a breakfast dish, I will. A Hotel full of guests makes me feel right at home (I grew up in a family of 9). It thrills my little heart to the core when random people stop by to check out "this beautiful building."
I wear all the hats at The Hotel (I usually refer to the Hampsher Hotel Bed & Breakfast simply as "The Hotel", much less of a mouthful. And let's face it; we aren't all about formality around here). I'm the chef, the maid, the secretary, the waitress, the gardener, HR, hostess, poster child. It's great! It's really as fun of a job as you think it is.
Now that summer's (nearly) here, it's busy season, and my reservation book is filling. My typical day goes like this: get out of bed, enjoy coffee & look through my planner for the day's events, go work a much less glamorous, but necessary second job, get off work early afternoon, go about Hotel business (plan menus, grocery shop, clean, tend to the plants, daydream, ahem, research on the front porch about how to become a better Hotel), take off about 5, or meet guests if there are some arriving, prep food for breakfast the next day, go to bed.
I truly love my job. Actually, I don't really like calling it a job; that brings to mind nasty things like cubicles and constantly ringing phones, sore feet and irate customers. No, what I do is putter about, arranging flowers, polishing silverware, browsing cookbooks/food blogs (here's one of my faves: smittenkitchen.com), fluff pillows, bake things to arrange on glass cakestands, bring guests lemonade in goblets to sip on while they lounge on the front porch, give tours. It's what I've always wanted to do, even if I didn't know that when I was feverishly trying to decide on a career senior year in high school.

So, that's that. Come back soon & see what else is going on at The Hotel.

*Also, I feel like I should add a disclaimer. I don't really like technology. Hate it in fact (except for pinterest...pinterest.com/hampsherhotel). But sigh, this world I live in dictates that I must dabble in it somewhat. That said, if the header on here is bothering you, it's going to be fixed soon! As soon as I figure out how to crop it...Please be patient with the design of the blog, by the end of the summer, maybe I'll have it polished up. Until next time!