These kids look as bored as I feel. Notice how I didn't crop my untidy kitchen out for authenticity.
My morning housewiferly tasks have a rhythm, and they go like this:
- Monday - clean up from the weekend, make calendars and to-do lists, go through papers, make phone calls.
- Tuesday - grocery shopping before I take Alice to music class.
- Wednesday - laundry and gear up for my busiest afternoon.
- Thursday - clean the whole house before/during the cleaners.
- Friday - book club or lunch with friends or whatever I want because I deserve it.
Since yesterday was a holiday and today was spent trying to honor my civic duty and watch parts of the inauguration, I am discombobulated. I can't get into the groove. I only have two mornings left until the weekend and if I'm not careful, there isn't going to be any Friday fun around here.
I need someone to come over and do my jobs for me. Just tidying up from the long weekend would help. I have some cupcakes in the fridge I could trade for a job well done. Thanks in advance. I'll be on the couch.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's post: Everything you want to know about having house cleaners, because people always ask.
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Please address how to take a nap while your cleaner is cleaning, how to make your cleaner hurry up and leave already, and how to use the kitchen when the cleaner is either cleaning it or has just finished. I hate that.
Can I just escape my messy house and come to your place to hang out and eat a cupcake?
I love having my baby but my housework is suffering. I need to get me one of those cleaning ladies.
I could send my housekeeping crew. I love them. I only get them every two weeks. With only one kid at home, the house stays pretty clean. Will you send cupcakes?
I've had a live-in maid now for the last 2.5 years, I am a pro at ignoring them while they clean the messes at my feet. I'll review your tips though, I'm sure there will be precious nuggets of wisdom I have overlooked.
Our Monday to do lists are kind of similar...where do all of those papers come from anyway?
I want a cupcake and to sit by you on the couch. We could style each other's hair! Nobody around here lets me style their hair.
i have the funniest image of you and lauren sitting in bathrobes, with facial masks on, styling each other's hair while some poor wench manuevers around you with a vaccuum. of course, there are cupcakes.
i don't get people who have cleaning ladies. hello, it's called "family responsibility" and everyone works together.
yes, i judge. maybe next time my husband gets deployed and i am falling apart all over the place, i'll eat my words. don't judge me when i do.
I have cleaning lady envy, but having Byron is almost as good and it's cheaper.
I love that you reserve Fridays for fun days. I TOTALLY do the same thing. It's my lunch and movie day, and I will not give it up for anything, even piles of laundry and school stuff.
Celia, your blog always makes me smile. I look forward to your housecleaner post. Mine come Monday morning at 7:30 am. Not an optimal choice since I end up doing all the "precleaning" for them late Sunday night which in turn makes me tired for work the next day. It is a nonsensical cycle but I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who cleans before the cleaners arrive!
First of all, those kids in the first picture are not bored...they are watching TV. I've been to your house and i know they are looking at the TV.
Second of all, I love that Cici and Fifi are smiling for the picture.
Third of all, I am so you with that weekly rhythym thing. (I am positive I spelled rhythym wrong.) My kids DID NOT deserve a holiday after our extra week of snow days after Christmas break.
I'm all discombobulated, too...and therefore, am just finishing Monday's chore - laundry - today. And as for the cropping of the photo...I see a vaccuum...that means a chore has been done, or will be soon, right?
I would like to make a request that Andrea share how to make everyone help. Since I'm at present without a housecleaner, I can't keep up and these kids are making messes every five minutes! How do you do it?
Mondays are work days and Fridays are fun days in my calendar too.
I have a cleaning lady every other week and she is my ANGEL!
When did my kids spend the night at your house?
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