This is my den. Today, unfortunately, it looks very much like my living room, playroom, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. I'm swamped. After the washing machine went out and created a backlog of laundry and then Dawn and I both got sick and then Dawn got called into work all week and then Spring Break and then our biggest festival of the year (made bookoos, by the way!), the house is beyond repair. The problem is that even if I worked on it continuously it still wouldn't get clean because the 4 kids leave such destruction in their wakes. While I am repairing they are destroying. Adrienne Rich wrote something like, "The greatest frustration of Motherhood is doing jobs that are constantly undone." How true.
I'm seriously considering using some of my festival profits to hire a Merry Maid to help me climb out of the wreckage. Is that terrible?
It's called the homey lived in look and you're going to make me jealous, making a Merry Maid scream.
ReplyDeleteHaha - If I were near, I'd offer to watch the little ones for a day while you and the Merry Maids did SUPER-CLEANING, followed by margaritas.
ReplyDeleteAJ - A roundtrip from Colorado will be cheaper than the Merry Maids' hourly. What's your schedule like?:)
ReplyDeletelooks scarily similar to my room..
ReplyDeleteYea, we'd be divorced by now.
ReplyDeleteWow.....
and maids are really paid that much?!?
well, seems I owe you all a visit anyway, what better way to reacquaint than dirty laundry???
ReplyDeleteit may take me a couple weeks to get there, moving the apartment and all... I'll have to get back to you! But, I'd bring my own trailer and my cat. And, great idea, AJ... I do have a blender with so much experience she makes her own drinks!
Come on, Laura! I and the Whirlpool are ready for you!
ReplyDeleteWow - that would send me into a total headspin - the kids would think I'd morphed into a horrible monster...but it (at least one room) would have to be picked up if not cleaned before anyone got to do anything else. lol
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