My Life Of Leisure
A couple of months ago, we broke down and hired a cleaning service to come in on Mondays. The decision was mostly mine: I’d reached a point where the struggle to keep the house clean, to homeschool and to do paid work online were all a bit too much to squeeze into Mommy’s 14-hour day.
As soon as I found out that I have fibromyalgia, I knew we’d made the right decision. I need to start thinking of my energy level as potentially finite, rather than something which replenishes itself daily, since there are most definitely days I feel wiped out even after a good 9 hours of solid sleep.
The nice thing about having someone else do our cleaning: I feel like we’re living in one of those luxury homes on Mondays after the cleaning team has been here. They change our sheets, they do the dusting and a pretty decent job of vacuuming. Oh, and finding the end of the toilet paper folded into a nifty little triangle is pretty fun, too.
Unfortunately with the holidays coming the cleaning team has two Mondays in a row off. Rather than cancel on me, they want to come on Saturday morning.
Which means I now have to decide which is more important: having someone else clean my house or getting to sleep in.
This is a far more difficult decision than it sounds like, folks.
2 Responses to “My Life Of Leisure”
For me the question would be easily be answered by reflecting on how much pain I would be in the day after doing all of the cleaning the maids do. I don’t know about you but my jar of marbles would be empty for at least 3 days.
I’m glad you reminded me of that, because I’m still learning that I really DO need to try doing “just a little” every day instead of trying to do a whole lot on one day since that only means I’ll be doing nothing for days afterwards.
Now I just have to convince VH and my son that getting up extra early on a Saturday is a good thing. Maybe we’ll go out for breakfast: that way I don’t have to cook OR clean that morning.