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For The Sandbox Writing Challenge 32 this week I’ve had to think and think and think about this. I think I thunk so hard I gave myself a headache a couple days. There are so many things that would make me smile. Like Stef and Jesse moving back here with our four grandkids, paying the mortgage off on the house, getting my own car. But those things all seem so, “Well yeah! Of course that would make you smile!” They’re all a “smile” given.
I wanted to think of something unexpected that would REALLY put a grin on my face. And I finally came up with the perfect thing, something for both Drollery and me. Staff!!! A maid and a lawn care specialist!
For me, someone to come in at least once a week and give our humble hovel a good, swift sprucin’ up. Especially the bathroom and kitchen. The other rooms I can manage pretty well, and the laundry I can handle. But those floors and that bathtub… Bending is something I’m not supposed to do. I would be SO thrilled to have a little help.
For Drollery, someone to mow and groom the yard (and if they knew a little landscaping art, that would be great, too). He could also use a little help with putting one more coat of paint on the house and shed, and putting up the new rain gutters. Oh! And mustn’t forget the new shutters. There’s just not enough hours in the day for him to do what needs to be done around this house now that we’re starting to put some work into it before he retires.
Let me tell you what! If Drollery walked in here one night and said he’d hired some folks to give us a hand, I wouldn’t stop smilin’ for days! Ah, but one can only dream… Sigh…
(Btw, how many maids in provocative outfits does it take to clean a house, ’cause Googe’s got hundreds of them!!! 😮 )
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Picture Credits:
maid — www.homeadvisor.com
man mowing lawn — www.canstockphoto.com
Impromptu Promptlings 
Yes, the house cleaner, and I have to go along with Karen on the Chef! We already have (inherited) the lawn guy who also plows the snow in winter. 🙂
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It was our discussion the other day about your lawn guy that brought this to mind! Did Mr. Q get all the stuff picked up from the yard?
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It turned out the lawn guy did a very good job this year.
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This is a great idea. But the household staff I most want is a personal chef. Someone to plan meals, shop for food, cook, nag the kids to come to dinner, and then clean up after it. I’d even prefer cleaning, if I didn’t have to do any of this!
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I forgot about the meal planning/grocery shopping/cooking/cleaning up afterward part of it. I think we’re going to need a larger staff! (Obviously one about the size of those at Downtown Abbey! 😀 )
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Now there’s a thought 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Would you like some staff, too, Raili? 😀
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I’m next in line! Housework is a never ending thankless task that detracts from other more important things 😦
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Exactly! Even if I didn’t have these stupid discs out in my back I STILL wouldn’t want to do it!!! The doc said, NO SWEEPING OR MOPPING, NO VACUUMING, NO DISHES, AND ESPECIALLY NO CLEANING THE TUB. I wonder how he thought I was suppose to keep the house from being condemned! I found a Mr. Clean telscoping wand with a scrubber on the end for cleaning the tub, though. Works like a charm!
It has a pad that slips over the blue sponge head. I snatched up about 80 of them from Amazon because I couldn’t find them here anymore! 😀
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