Thanksgiving 2006
It is so strange realize that 2006 is almost over. This past year has seen its share of changes and tremedous growth for me. My daughter was in for about a week from the east coast area and it was a nice visit although most of her time was spent studying. We were able to have a couple of hours of uninterrupted time to talk about some of the things going on in our lives that were putting walls up. She is a grown woman (almost 30 years old) and it is hard for her to understand that no matter how old she gets there is something that is called a mother's heart that us mothers can not just turn off. She is not married and has no children so she has no idea what it is - I pray one day she will be blessed with one.
If you link on her blog www.wonl.blogspot.com (in my list of links as Laura) she shows Thanksgiving down south. Truthfully we did not have deer horns for thanksgiving dinner but they were boiling on my stove. Yes the day I had a new maid come to clean for the first time she entered my house to find three adults at home as well as one set of deer horns in the pot and one waiting to be boiled. Hope she comes back.
Speaking of maids - I used to have a wonderful girl that came every two weeks. When I say great she was awesome - did blinds, light fixtures, everything (things I did not even do). Do not know what happened to her she just fell off the face of the earth. It was not just me because someone else that used her could not get in touch with her. Anyway I have been kinda looking for a replacement for a while.
A friend of one of my sons has a mother that cleans houses. I thought "Oh well How bad can she be? I will give her a try." NEVER NEVER NEVER DO THAT. She got there at 8:30 a.m. At 1:30 she called to ask how to put the vacuum cleaner together - I was a little surprised but thought she saved the vacuuming for last. Then 30 minutes later she called to see if she could come back the next day to FINISH up - I said sure and she said o.k it will be another $35.00. I thought Boy my house is gonna sparkle The $85.00 I paid her for today and the $35.00 for tomorrow - Awesome. (this was very good because she was going to have my house sparkling- I was going out of town for the weekend and I had a meeting at my house on Sunday night - no problem my house was gonna be $125.00 worth of clean RIGHT!!!!!)
My son called before I got home to ask if the maid had come. Yeah - right I am not falling for that. I am going to walk into a clean house and it will be great. He is such a jokester anyway. This time he was not joking. When I say that I could not tell she had come I am not joking. The newspaper from the morning was still on the table. The vegetable bin I left out on the counter with a request she clean the bottom of the refrigerator was still where I left it. The dog hair was still all over the floor but she did not know how to put the vacuum cleaner together. The rest of the rooms must be clean. As I walked through the rest of the house I was so depressed. The only room that had any evidence of someone being in it was my bathroom - It is large but not $85.00 and 5 hours worth of large. The counter tops were not even cleaned. I was in a state of shock.
I called her to tell her not to come the next day - that took a lot of coaxing from family members. She was so surprised I was not pleased. Anyway I toyed with the idea of having my Sunday night meeting in my bathroom but just decided to keep the lights on dim light candles instead. So imagine my fear when I decided to try another one - this time I had references which I actually called. Glowing reports - Maybe this one is gonna be a keeper. She did a great job. I just hope the deer horns on the stove did not scare her off. We will see in two weeks.
I always have a fall back. My husband who plans on retiring in March says he will be glad to clean for $85.00 a room - so just in case......
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If you link on her blog www.wonl.blogspot.com (in my list of links as Laura) she shows Thanksgiving down south. Truthfully we did not have deer horns for thanksgiving dinner but they were boiling on my stove. Yes the day I had a new maid come to clean for the first time she entered my house to find three adults at home as well as one set of deer horns in the pot and one waiting to be boiled. Hope she comes back.
Speaking of maids - I used to have a wonderful girl that came every two weeks. When I say great she was awesome - did blinds, light fixtures, everything (things I did not even do). Do not know what happened to her she just fell off the face of the earth. It was not just me because someone else that used her could not get in touch with her. Anyway I have been kinda looking for a replacement for a while.
A friend of one of my sons has a mother that cleans houses. I thought "Oh well How bad can she be? I will give her a try." NEVER NEVER NEVER DO THAT. She got there at 8:30 a.m. At 1:30 she called to ask how to put the vacuum cleaner together - I was a little surprised but thought she saved the vacuuming for last. Then 30 minutes later she called to see if she could come back the next day to FINISH up - I said sure and she said o.k it will be another $35.00. I thought Boy my house is gonna sparkle The $85.00 I paid her for today and the $35.00 for tomorrow - Awesome. (this was very good because she was going to have my house sparkling- I was going out of town for the weekend and I had a meeting at my house on Sunday night - no problem my house was gonna be $125.00 worth of clean RIGHT!!!!!)
My son called before I got home to ask if the maid had come. Yeah - right I am not falling for that. I am going to walk into a clean house and it will be great. He is such a jokester anyway. This time he was not joking. When I say that I could not tell she had come I am not joking. The newspaper from the morning was still on the table. The vegetable bin I left out on the counter with a request she clean the bottom of the refrigerator was still where I left it. The dog hair was still all over the floor but she did not know how to put the vacuum cleaner together. The rest of the rooms must be clean. As I walked through the rest of the house I was so depressed. The only room that had any evidence of someone being in it was my bathroom - It is large but not $85.00 and 5 hours worth of large. The counter tops were not even cleaned. I was in a state of shock.
I called her to tell her not to come the next day - that took a lot of coaxing from family members. She was so surprised I was not pleased. Anyway I toyed with the idea of having my Sunday night meeting in my bathroom but just decided to keep the lights on dim light candles instead. So imagine my fear when I decided to try another one - this time I had references which I actually called. Glowing reports - Maybe this one is gonna be a keeper. She did a great job. I just hope the deer horns on the stove did not scare her off. We will see in two weeks.
I always have a fall back. My husband who plans on retiring in March says he will be glad to clean for $85.00 a room - so just in case......
em
