A Clean Solution

I finally bit the bullet and hired a cleaning company. After leaving full time employment, I jumped into my housewife job seriously. The fact is.....I'm a terrible housewife. I would much rather build a business or a web site (or a funny blog) than deal with anything in the house. The company is called The Cleaning Authority and the two sisters who own the franchise on the Peninsula are really great. I love giving women small biz owners the business.


Of course, the first day was an enhanced cleaning to bring parts of the house up to a maintenance level (took them some time!). Oh, what cooperation I had from the family. Kirby came home in the middle of the day just as they were starting to work from home. So, another body for them to work around. The girls decided that they liked not only the two women, but all of their cleaning supplies. Faith had to rub up against everything and follow them around. Phoenix had to try chewing the bags and rolling in the feather duster. She smelled horrible afterward! She also found the cleaning woman's purse and fell in love (see below). Then one of them decided there was not enough cleaning, so they threw up under the dining room table as the woman began vacuuming. Kirby moved from room to room with the laptop. I seriously questioned whether any of this was causing me less or more stress. So, that night when Kirby opened my celebratory bottle of wine and spilled it all over the newly cleaned kitchen, I just closed my eyes and thought...they will be here again next week....