One person or another in our household has been laid up since Thanksgiving.I’m beginning to think that we’ve offended the universe in some very serious way, bringing upon us plague after plague. My plague, of course, is of a different sort, with morning sickness that lasts all the livelong day.
We’re a barrel of laughs, I tell ya.
It got so bad that I hired one of those professional maid companies to clean my house on Friday. My mother-in-law came to town for a one-day visit and the idea of exerting any energy to clean made me weep. So I forked over a semi-outrageous fee for two women to come and wipe down my kitchen cabinets and clean my toilets.
Oh, the shame!
Then, yesterday morning, I woke up to a weepy, runny child, her head hot with fever. All raw lips and sweaty armpits, she rested, lethargic, all day yesterday, eating only pretzels and sipping ice water.
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Repeat after me: Paying for cleaning is NEVER SHAMEFUL!
Now there’s an idea, paying someone to clean my house. Hmmmmm.
You my friend deserve to pay for someone to come and clean your home! No shame in that all!!
I’ve really got to try this cleaning thing the next time I stretched beyond repair.
Thanks…
I’m not sick, or pregnant, but the kids are – sick that is. And I’d give my right arm for someone to come and clean for me!
Dude, maids need jobs too! You are stimulating the economy
it’s that vulnerability that shatters me.
No one ever told me that motherhood would leave me so vunerable and so exposed to the fears of the world.