Swells
I am not.
I mean I cook and bake sparingly, sweep the floor occasionally, arrange the closet (that I have ransacked for something to donate, or wear or throw away) some of the time. But, I will admit this, I do not know how to clean the bathroom, have never done the laundry (do not even know how to operate our washing machine), and have never prepared my daughter’s school lunch (a horrible realization). But you see, that’s how efficient my staff at home was.
Okay, I know what you are thinking. But please hear me out.
My justification (mostly to myself) is that I work. And when I am home, I take care of/talk to/ play with – the kids (yes, this includes the husband) that I have no time or energy to deal with housework. And, well, yeah, I had helpers.
That was until some 10 months ago, when my maid of 5 years left me. (sources said she fell in love, got married, got pregnant, worked somewhere else, went back to her province – there were so many versions and I do not even know the real story.)