{"id":8665,"date":"2008-04-11T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momservations.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/11\/the-cleaning-lady-costco-and-catholic-guilt"},"modified":"2008-04-11T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:35:49","slug":"the-cleaning-lady-costco-and-catholic-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momservations.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/11\/the-cleaning-lady-costco-and-catholic-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleaning Lady, Costco and Catholic Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve sunk to a new low. I tried to pull off the cleaning lady’s work as my own. When Hubby got home, he gushed how nice the house looked and I took full, unabashed credit.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But he caught me. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Poking his head in the hall bathroom he immediately called my bluff. “Oh, wait. Today was Cleaning Lady Day wasn’t it?”<\/font><\/p>\n

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I still clung to my sinking ship, determined to go down with it. With mock indignation I countered, “I resent that! What makes you think I didn’t clean that bathroom to sparkling perfection?”<\/font><\/p>\n

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His reply was mocking laughter the rest of the way down the hall.<\/font><\/p>\n

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?        <\/span>?        <\/span>?<\/font><\/p>\n

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I used to be one of the few, the proud, in my mommy’s playgroup who did not have a cleaning lady. However, I wasn’t proud of the fact that my house looked like it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then one day, scrub brush in hand vigorously cleansing the toilet, grumbling about little and big boys needing to improve their aim, I snapped.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As my sweet mother-in-law (MIL) and Hubby were heading out the door to shop at my favorite you’ll-never-guess-what-I-got impulse buy store (without me!), MIL asked me a normally unloaded question.<\/font><\/p>\n

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“Is there anything we can get you at Costco?” <\/font><\/p>\n

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Without lifting my head out of the toilet I growled, “Yeah. A cleaning lady.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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Later, when Hubby returned from the store he very seriously pulled me aside. “I tried to tell Mom you were kidding, but she is insisting on paying for a cleaning lady to come once a month to do the kitchen and bathrooms.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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I felt like a bad puppy who just got smacked with a rolled newspaper for biting too hard in play. Like a puppy, I didn’t know whether to wag my tail or hang my head with this mixed message.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Unable to hold back his smirk, Hubby threw me a bone, adding, “I told her you’d be totally against it, because of the sheer joy you experience cleaning bathrooms.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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After punching Hubby in the arm for perversely stoking my Catholic guilt, I did a happy dance all around the house and spit out some good tongue wagging raspberries at the bathrooms I would never deep down scrub again.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Did I not tell you Costco is the greatest? Who knew they sold cleaning ladies there too?!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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