Whaaaa happened?!<\/p>\n
Why haven’t I posted since last Wednesday??<\/p>\n
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat….and I’ve got a TON of stuff to do.\u00a0 Turns out it’s more stressful to make<\/em> gifts than it is to buy them.<\/p>\n It’s also more stressful to clean your own house than it is to pay someone to do it for you.\u00a0\u00a0I’m\u00a0not two women (wearing khakis and polos) whose life work it is to clean houses.\u00a0 So I CAN’T clean the whole house in a little over two hours – and I’m done trying.<\/p>\n I’m just one woman with a master’s degree whose job was taken and who hasn’t cleaned her own house in 10 years.\u00a0\u00a0 But I’m smart enough to know when I’ve been beat.\u00a0 By my own system.\u00a0 The get ‘er done in a day method isn’t working.<\/p>\n So I’m now gonna try my friend’s do-one-housecleaning-chore-a-day.\u00a0 In fact, when I posted a previous blog about the two methods of cleaning house (1. my way or 2. the highway), my friend L.C. called me to complain.\u00a0 She swears by her tried-and-true housecleaning method of doing one thing a day (but not on Sundays!\u00a0 Score!!).\u00a0 And she was incensed\u00a0(is incensed too strong a word to use here?\u00a0 Nah!) that I would lobby for the get-‘er-done-like-two-cleaning-ladies-in-two-hours methodology.<\/p>\n During said conversation, I explained that I do “interim cleaning” (it’s not like I let the house fall into complete ruin in between the every-two-week-visits the cleaning ladies would make) [side note: I was gonna refer to the visits as “bi-weekly” but all of a sudden I couldn’t remember if that meant twice a week or every other week.\u00a0 Oy.\u00a0 Where’s your English Major mom when you need her?!].\u00a0<\/em> Regardless, L.C. lobbied strongly for her methodology.<\/p>\n So I’m gonna give it a try.\u00a0 But I did invite her to come and stay with me for a week so I could apprentice to her to see how this whole thing should flow.\u00a0 I haven’t heard back so I’m flying solo here.<\/p>\n Housecleaning Sensei – where are you when I need you?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whaaaa happened?! Why haven’t I posted since last Wednesday?? Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat….and I’ve got a TON of stuff to do.\u00a0 Turns out it’s more stressful to make gifts than it is to buy them. It’s also more stressful to clean your own house than it is to pay someone to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}