August 5, 2025

Unpleasant Surprise

Got an unexpected and unpleasant surprise for our family today. Our cleaner person of two years quit without notice by texting me a letter she wrote to my husband and I. She sent a broken heart emoji and sent her letter, noting that she found the timing to be devastating but that she just accepted a job as a paraprofessional for the school district. She noted that having multiple cleaning clients has taken a toll on her body and she just found out today that she is receiving an official offer for her new job

I told her how much she will be missed by texting her back. And I thanked her for her work and especially for hanging a gallery of beautiful framed family photos in Mom’s sitting room that have made her beam more than she has in forever. She had to quit before finishing it which is breaking all of our hearts.

She was with us for two years. Our house is large for the 8 of us and we have plenty of belongings that are not very organized that tend to impede progress.

Now we’re discussing using what we paid her to finally require the kids to do more and to earn something more than your basic allowance, but that means I will have to train them in cleaning, manage them, and so on and so forth and quite frankly with everything else I do I don’t know if that will last long.