Changing linens

I don't change linens the way my mother did. She always changed them on March 21 or there abouts and when the linens on the beds were changed -- that is the outer linens, the spreads -- the room was given a thorough cleaning.

I finally got my summer linens on the bed this morning, but I did NOT give the room a thorough cleaning. I clean the room once a week, thoroughly, and I figure that's good enough. I do the baseboards when there is company coming, and I will have Megan scrub the bathroom floor real good, especially in the corners when I am able to use her services later this summer.

In fact, my list for her aid is growing each day. So far, I want the linoleum floors scrubbed. I can't do it any more, and while I do clean the floors around the toilets every day, and wash the kitchen floor at least once a week, more often if it needs it, and I wash the bathroom floors at least once a week, the grout part of the picture on the linoleum needs scrubbing. I "Mr. Clean eraser'd it a few months ago, and that worked well, but it sure did leave me bound up in my back and legs for days, so I'll have Megan do that this summer.

Of course, there are the "high" jobs that neither Alan nor I can do, which she did last year. And I hope she is able to help me shop a little this summer. I have things I need to get at Sam's and Pier One, etc., that I can't walk to or carry out the products I need, so I'm hoping she doesn't balk at shopping for me again this year. She's a real sweet girl, and a very good worker. Megan Curry -- that is. She's going to nursing school at UK and this summer she's got a part-time job at St. Luke's Hospital -- just under the number of hours they would have to pay her benefits. Cheap-oes.

I need to get my laundry room cleared up. I can't move in there right now. I need to get up on the step stool, which hurts me terribly to climb to the first step, but it's got to be done. Not today though. Today we're going to Amy's for Matthew's 3rd birthday party.

Matthew's life is a blur -- in more ways than one. He's a child who runs everywhere, and his energy level is so high, I can't even stand to watch him sometimes. But he's adorable. I must BLOG about him on Runnemede Remembered one of these days.