A Husband Away Brings the Cleaning Angels to Stay
We just finished up a three-day stint with Terence gone to Tucson for training. At first I was worried. After all, having your husband out of town for several days when you can't get up is kind of daunting. However, it all went really well.
In fact, if you can believe it, my house is now cleaner than it has been in over a year.
Strange that it should be that way while on bedrest with my husband away. But I guess when you really don't have any help, all kinds of people jump in. My mom was here every day for hours (she did all the school runs, even showing up at 6:30am to get M to school.) Every second she wasn't distracted by the kids she was cleaning my house or doing my laundry. Then Tuesday morning the Relief Society Presidency showed up and proceeded to clean my house even more. They even cleaned the dried-on-for-months applesauce and large pencil murals off the girls' bedroom walls! (Plus the RS Pres gave me a foot massage. It was heavenly!) And in the evening my sister Camie came and took the deep cleaning even further, getting the bathrooms, the overwhelming disaster of the office, and cleaning out my fridge. Now that is dedication and service!
Yesterday my house was so clean that my mom had to resort to long-put-off tasks like painting over the permanent marker decorations in the hallway. I feel like Extreme Makeover visited my home this week. Maybe Terence should go out of town more often....
In fact, if you can believe it, my house is now cleaner than it has been in over a year.
Strange that it should be that way while on bedrest with my husband away. But I guess when you really don't have any help, all kinds of people jump in. My mom was here every day for hours (she did all the school runs, even showing up at 6:30am to get M to school.) Every second she wasn't distracted by the kids she was cleaning my house or doing my laundry. Then Tuesday morning the Relief Society Presidency showed up and proceeded to clean my house even more. They even cleaned the dried-on-for-months applesauce and large pencil murals off the girls' bedroom walls! (Plus the RS Pres gave me a foot massage. It was heavenly!) And in the evening my sister Camie came and took the deep cleaning even further, getting the bathrooms, the overwhelming disaster of the office, and cleaning out my fridge. Now that is dedication and service!
Yesterday my house was so clean that my mom had to resort to long-put-off tasks like painting over the permanent marker decorations in the hallway. I feel like Extreme Makeover visited my home this week. Maybe Terence should go out of town more often....
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Oh and a foot rub to boot! woo hoo!