Cleaning Houses Not Fun !!!

Well I have been without a job for three months now and no luck in finding one in this town. I guess my unemployment will run out pretty soon. So Mike has lined me up with a couple of house cleaning jobs. I did clean one by myself a couple of weeks ago it wasn't too bad, then I had to clean it again and do laundry and make the beds. If my mother had not been with me it would have taken me all day. Now if you are wondering why should a house take so long let me clue you in to the size. This house was a old house with 20 ft. ceilings it looked like, all wood floors, three bedrooms and full baths in each bedroom. Every room had a fireplace including one bathroom and the kitchen, the hallway was about 75 ft long. This house was really old timey and I loved it except for the SAND.
Ok, I made it through that cleaning just a little sore in some places.
So Mike schedules me for a deep clean on another house on the Cape. At first I thought I could do it by myself, NO WAY!!!!! This house was massive, I have never seen a house this big. I almost backed out on this one. I had to have help so Mike's Aunt and Uncle helped the first day. I walked in this place and I could not even begin to think where to begin.

This is over 4000 sq. ft. home with marble and wood floors, WHY ???
It was a four level home with a elevator that I was so scared to ride in, so we climbed the stairs. I have told people that there were at least 30 steps going up and down the levels which made it a total of about 90 steps or more. No one believes me so I wanted to take pictures but I didn't.
This house had five bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms with marble all the way to the ceiling. It even had a movie room and game room on the same floor, plus an office, kitchen, living and dinning rooms. It had 2 sets of washers and driers and 3 separate air-conditioners for each floor.

The first day we worked about 6 hours the next day minus one helper it took us 8 1/2 hours. I got home just in time to go to Wed. night church. I could barely walk, every inch of my body hurt, my feet I thought were gonna fall off and my back felt like I had been lifting weights. I wasn't thinking that when I was on my knees crawling around that I would have bruises from being on marble floors. I have one knee that is still hurting me. This should have been a 4 day job why in the world did we think we needed it done in 2 days is beyond me. I need to be kicked where the sun does not shine.
Today is Sunday and I still am a little sore:) Mike thinks it is funny, he needs to go next time. As for me, this is my LAST deep clean of any house except my own.
Mike has me another job lined up, cutting like 2 acres of land. I don't see in the Bible any where it says for a woman to do manuel labor.
All I know is that I have a second opinion about house cleaners, and never wear Crock shoes:( My son Matthew said I should have used my shoes for cushions, why didn't I think of that????
If you would like to see this house it is called Sugar Magnolia and it is listed with Pristine Properties in Gulf Co. Florida, you can see it's listing under rentals at the Cape. Go ahead take a look !!!!!

Same Look ????

I will probably get some real feed back from the person in these pictures, but I just had to. From giving wet open mouth kisses ( so sweet) to big ole belly, love that belly. One was Easter Sunday and Matthew was sooo cute with the over-all look with a little white bow tie, white socks that were so long they went to his knees and had to be rolled down and the white Buster Brown hard shoes that when you got kicked you knew it-ouch!

The other one at the beach with daddy and then trying out cloth diapers-a big mistake. I loved the smell when I would hang them out side but that was the only good thing about them:):)

The lady Matthew is kissing was Mammaw when she had dark hair:)

Forgot the Pictures

So Sweet

We got a little surprise on Wed. our little grandson from Gainesville hitched a ride with his Aunt TT and Uncle TaTa, thats what he calls them not really sure why but it's cute. He also calls Matthew, Momo:):)
He has been really good just soooooo much energy and gets up too early. But thats fine who needs sleep, and he won't sleep with his Papa but loves him so much. Yesterday he was so cute with Celie he helped me with her by taking the diapers to the trash and reading her a book. He is getting so big now and is so smart. He knows spanish and he was talking it yesterday and I had to call Matthew for him to tell me what he was saying, then Papa came in and he also knew what he was saying. He has learned so much from the little show Diego the little spanish guy. It is really educational and I hear him answer the questions that Diego asks. He learned to count in spanish from that show also.
Anyway he was good help yesterday and he got to ride his Papa's tractor.
Celie had another go at the swing but I let her swing with me in the lawn swing she really liked that. And walking outside in the grass she loved also.
On Tuesday I cleaned my first house at Indian Pass, Oh my word I thought my back was going to break but I am fine now. How can a house be so deceiving? I opened the front door and about fainted. This house was huge and I mean huge. It had 3 bedrooms with full size baths in the master was a fireplace as was in every other room also. The hall was about 50 feet long and 10 feet wide all wood floors. There was a sitting room with 1/2 bath a big living room and master kitchen which had a fireplace also. Anyway I had a work out, who needs Weight Watchers when you do this :):)

Grandchildren

Well I wanted to talk about my grandchildren, I really can't believe that I am old enough to be one(GRANDMOTHER). But really Mama was only 48 when she had her first one and I was 55. So I got a really late start, but I got married late also,anyway enough about that.

I've got 3 precious little ones, and they all are so special to me. And everyone of them are different, and they should be. Who wants to be all alike? Britt is the first and he never meets a stranger. He will just go up and ask you," What's your name"? Then he will say I am Britt Michael White. I always say he is just like Adam but really I am not too sure.

Adam was always very quite, you could take him a 100 miles and he would never say a word. So Britt doesn't get that from Adam or Marci both are very quite. We, meaning all the "White Gang"that wanted to come we went out to eat in Apalachicola and sat at 3 different tables. Well Britt I guess you could call him the table greeter. He went from table to table talking to everyone asking some really strange questions, he's just 3 years old. Then all of a sudden he started singing"Mamma-Mia"really loud and then his daddy got on to him. But then we over rode Adam and Britt got to sing. He is not bashful at all!!!

Then I have Paisley who was 1 in December. They say she looks like me.

She is very very quite and doesn't bother anything and just plays. The only thing I have noticed about Paisley is now Britt has to watch out. She has finally learned to take up for herself. She is too little to talk but she loves to eat. A while back Mike went to pick Britt up in Tallahassee and Mama rode with him. Well they ate at Mama's favorite place, Cracker Barrel. That is when Paisley got introduced to collard greens and corn bread. They said she ate so much of them just like a little pig:):) I can't wait till she can talk.

Then I have Celie the last one, right now. She was 1 Feb 23 and I think she is going to be a talker and a jokester like her daddy and papa.

She smiles all the time and when you laugh not at her she starts laughing then you laugh at her laughing, she is a mess. She just started walking she is so cute, she looks like a cowboy, but I think most of that walk is the diaper. I would hate to have to wear one. I think she said , hey meme, but I have been corrected as usual she is saying hey lilly, that is her dog. But I say it's hey Meme!!!

I can't wait til the summer and they can all be together and take warm outside pictures and go to the park. By summer everyone will be walking good and maybe talking some.

You always wonder after you have your first child and you love him/her so much that you can't imagine loving another one the same. But guess what, you do. A mother's love is not like any other and I guess that is why you call it a mother's love.

Someone Likes to Talk Trash:):)

The first thing that came out of Mikes mouth when we got Daffany was, "We can take her but she can not get on the furniture". Well that didn't last long, actually he doesn't know this happened. Monday I was just looking for Daf. and couldn't find her, she blended in so well with the couch that I didn't even see that she was there. She was sound asleep and I didn't have the heart to make her get down. She is the sweetest dog I know besides Macie. But Macie is not loving and does not want to be bothered, but Daf. loves to cuddle and just love you all over. So I thought I would post a couple of pictures.