Earning Her Keep

Josie helping out Mommy do a little Spring Cleaning

With the Spring brings the dreaded...I know most of you are probably thinking rain, well no. I am talking about Spring Cleaning. I have to say that I like a clean house, but I do not like cleaning it. As most of you can tell, my house is always a disaster. It never fails I clean one room spotless and move to the next and turn around and my tornado of a daughter has destroyed my hard work in a matter of seconds. No really seconds just as Brent. I have been off now for 8 weeks with my little man and just now am starting to do the dreaded Spring Cleaning. Yesterday, I worked on the kitchen. I took everything out of each and every cabinet and wiped them all clean. Man did that take forever. And even dusted the upstairs living room. Brent's response was why have you waited so long to start since I go back to work in 3 1/2 weeks. (But at least I only have to work for 3 weeks then get the Summer off. YEAH!!) My response was I just gave birth even though everything went better then expected and much easier I milked out the line "the doctor said no over doing it and I will see you at 6 weeks to release you." So, I have been released so now the work begins. YUCK!

Some of you may say, well you cleaned your in-laws. And to all of you I have one thing to say "I GOT PAID TO DO IT!" If someone wants to pay me $20 an hour to clean my own house then heck yeah my house would be spotless.

The reason why I hate to clean so much is because one second the house is clean and 2 minutes later it is not. The dreaded cycle. Just like the spend hours on dinner and in 10 minutes all you have left is the clean up.

So, even though I hate to clean Josie loves to vacuum. She volunteered to help Mommy do a little cleaning so she swept the kitchen floor and vacuumed the living room. What a good helper! This was after I made her play in her room because the house was semi clean. All I can say is she took out not being able to play in the kitchen and living room out on her bedroom. What a huge mess it is!

I would love to have enough money to invest in a full time maid. You know one that picks up everything and I don't have to. I know like that will ever have to. So those people that have maids I envy you. But, who needs a maid when you have children..right???