If you are going to come while we are on vacation (so that we have to stress about picking up our house while we are trying to get ready to go) and won’t be home for a week, then please make sure with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that you do not leave the door to the litter box shut. Because that would be bad. Almost like the opposite of cleaning our house.
In other news, does anybody know what about 7 days of cat urine and feces does to a treadmill?
So I’m kind of embarrassed to admit this, but we now have a maid. Aren’t we hmm hmm hmm? When we were renting we used to have a maid and it was actually pretty awesome. I could justify it though because it was just included as part of our rent. It’s almost like they were twisting our arms. 🙂
Now however…its all us. I do feel a little guilty about paying money for something that we could (should) do for ourselves. I feel like if we just worked a little harder we could fit it all in. The fact is, we just don’t have enough time to clean like we would like to. And with Evie crawling all over now, and with the lead levels in Chicago, we should probably mop, dust, etc. regularly. A quick sweep now and again isn’t going to cut it and when you’re short on time you cut corners.
The thing is, people used to make fun of us for saying, “The maid is coming tomorrow, we’ve got to clean!” Anybody who would say that though never had a maid! First off, who wants anybody seeing their house as a disaster? Second off, we didn’t hire them to tidy up our clutter. In fact, I’d prefer that they didn’t actually. They don’t know where to put anything and it ends up in weird places. We want them taking care of our dusting and stuff like that which is only more difficult with our junk lying all over the place.
We did some investigating and interviewed a couple of people and ended up finding the same people who used to clean for us when we were renting. They always did a good job before and it is a little scary to let strangers into your house when you aren’t there, so it is nice to find someone who you’ve already taken into your confidence (and they haven’t burned you) and not have to go through that again.
So today was the first day of the cleaning and I have to tell you, it is sooo nice to come home to the cleanest house we’ve had since we’ve moved in! Call us bougie if you want but I didn’t know our place could look so good. And I didn’t have to lift a finger!
So if anybody is looking for a recommendation for a cleaning service in the Chicago area, I’ll go ahead and vouch for Edith’s Cleaning Service.
Shane Halbach 