Cleanliness next to godliness???

In an effort to save some money this summer, E requested that we cancel our cleaning people for the three months that I am off work! WHAT?!?!!?

Like any good woman, I enjoy having my house cleaned, but would rather it not by by me. Still, I see the point and the necessity of it is much lowered by the fact that Im around more in the summer. (Yet, Im still bummed that I have to do it.)

The girl now being 10 is of an age to help and we had our first cleaning lesson. Of course she balked at first, but then totally got into it and did a great job...she was seriously helpful. I did the big stuff and she worked on whatever I told her to do...very helpful! Our neighbor J. came over during that time and I asked if he just wanted to hang out with us while we cleaned or actually help. Kids being kids, he wanted to help.

He was the floor and windows man while the girl did dusting and her own bathroom. The both learned the official way to put on a pillowcase (tuck the pillow under your chin....)

One bottle of lemon pledge, a bottle of swifter wet jet and two swifter cleaning pads later (the usually last for a couple of weeks), my floors were sparkly (albeit very wet) and you could slide a dime off the coffee table so slick was the polish.

Still, beggars cant be choosers!