In our house, the moment when guests are coming, everything changes.
Suddenly, it’s like an emergency.
Mom's mood switches from calm to emergency.
Everyone starts cleaning at the same time. Things that were lying around for days are quickly picked up and hidden anywhere possible.
The living room becomes the most important place in the world. Every corner of the house is fixed again and again like the guests are going to inspect every inch of the house.
My mother turns into a completely different person.
Her voice gets serious, and suddenly we all have duties.
“pick this up.”
“Clean this up.”
“Quickly!”
Even things that already look clean are cleaned again.
And the funniest part?
As soon as the guests arrive, everything becomes calm and normal again.They never checked that deeply.
We all sit nicely like nothing happened… like the chaos never existed.
But deep down, we all know this is not just cleaning…
this is a full tradition.
