Day 307 – My favorite people of the day (probably the year) are….

The house cleaners.  Yes, after much soul searching, guilt laden nights, and too many hours attempting to get shower grout clean, the wonderful ladies who clean my house have been re-hired. They used to spend about 2-3 hours cleaning the house.  Today it took them 5.  I feel a little guilty about this, but did give them some extra money in anticipation that it would be more difficult to get back to a cleaning baseline.  What this officially means is that I have failed on one point of the “domestic goddess trinity” (cleaning, cooking and child rearing).  I can’t keep a house clean.  I can live with that.