I didn't pay her enough

Yesterday afternoon I was determined to get the upstairs of our house cleaned. The upstairs of the house consistent of two bedrooms (mine and Kyle's and Ella's rooms) along with two bathrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen and entry way. We have beautiful Brazilian hard wood floors in the kitchen, dining and entry way. They look great clean and terrible dirty. 

With my current status of being a stay at home mom, I had to let our cleaning lady go. I have loved having this service for the last year and Kyle let me have a cleaning lady in Mississippi. But now with Junior on the way, I feel I can use the money I would pay her for other things and I can surely clean.

Since getting the green light from my doctor to go back to regular activities, I figured I could clean the floors, no problem. Well, a hour into it and my knees killing me, I came to the conclusion I did not pay my cleaning lady enough!!! Of course I do not use a mop to clean the floors, but a wet rag and a dry one, and work out the dirt marks with a little elbow power! The floors look awesome now. I cranked up the computer's iTunes and went to work. By the end I was pooped out and still had the bathrooms, dusting and vacuuming to do.

Luckily, Ella was more than happy to help- it was kind of like help. She loved seeing the toilets blue with cleaner and helped me get towels and rags together. 

Overall, after about 2 1/2 hours of cleaning, upstairs looked awesome. i even called Kyle so he would know what I had been doing, to hopefully lead to a complement later on that evening (he did comment on how nice everything looked). 

I don't think I will be going into the cleaning business anytime soon, though I took great pride in seeing the upstairs of our home look pretty good. 

Today I want to touch up the chips on the walls and organize the closet. This is something I could do sitting down if need.