True Ambrose confession
I want an ayi.
I want an ayi so incredibly bad right now. I want an ayi because I want to have a clean apartment that requires no effort on my part to maintain.
I want the toys picked up and the toilet scrubbed. Oh do I want someone else to scrub that bathroom for me.
I want to walk across the kitchen floor and not feel something crunch beneath my feat.
Heck, I want to walk across my bedroom floor without something crunching beneath my feet In other words, hooray for 16-months-old!
I want my laundry folded. And put away. Properly.
I especially want the coal dust wiped from it all.
I want all this done, and done everyday, so that when I invite another foreigner to come over (Myles has a friend coming all the way from Beijing proper to play), I'm not in a panic the preceding 24 hours to get everything done to make it look like I run this home so smoothly that I couldn't possibly need an ayi.
Yes, yes, I know all my aversions to having a full-time maid (and Randy's to having even a part-time maid). And after hearing possibly the worst first-hand ayi horror story from one of my American friends (which involved threats of kidnapping, extortion attempts, and the police dragging their trusted ayi of YEARS out of their garden after she suddenly turned on their family) I am really opposed to having any domestic help whatsoever.
But I would really like everything done with no effort from me.
I feel better having admitted that already.
I want an ayi so incredibly bad right now. I want an ayi because I want to have a clean apartment that requires no effort on my part to maintain.
I want the toys picked up and the toilet scrubbed. Oh do I want someone else to scrub that bathroom for me.
I want to walk across the kitchen floor and not feel something crunch beneath my feat.
Heck, I want to walk across my bedroom floor without something crunching beneath my feet In other words, hooray for 16-months-old!
I want my laundry folded. And put away. Properly.
I especially want the coal dust wiped from it all.
I want all this done, and done everyday, so that when I invite another foreigner to come over (Myles has a friend coming all the way from Beijing proper to play), I'm not in a panic the preceding 24 hours to get everything done to make it look like I run this home so smoothly that I couldn't possibly need an ayi.
Yes, yes, I know all my aversions to having a full-time maid (and Randy's to having even a part-time maid). And after hearing possibly the worst first-hand ayi horror story from one of my American friends (which involved threats of kidnapping, extortion attempts, and the police dragging their trusted ayi of YEARS out of their garden after she suddenly turned on their family) I am really opposed to having any domestic help whatsoever.
But I would really like everything done with no effort from me.
I feel better having admitted that already.
Comments
don't feel bad, its hard doing things yourself with littles!
Becky
I have an ayi, but she's gone this week, and I miss her already. It's simply impossible to keep up with the dust and nastiness and laundry folding around here - even when she is here. And I'm already dreading moving away and going back to doing it all (or not) by myself.