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My Wonderful Housekeeper!

Kuhn Nong consented to be my housekeeper when Brian asked her if she would consider it. She now cleans my condo from 2:30 – 5:30 on Fridays. We make ourselves scarce when she is working.

Today we ran some errands, then had a coffee in the shop near the condo building. I opened the door to these beautiful flowers she left for me! Aren’t they lovely?

I have never had a housekeeper before. In the states I had a couple of people give me estimates on cleaning our house. The lowest estimate was $100 for three hours, and the list of things they would not do was truly impressive. Needless to say, I never hired anyone.

Kuhn Nong leaves things spotless. I have never lived in a place so clean, mainly because we had our home filled with so much ‘stuff’ you couldn’t get to a shelf to clean it without it being a full-day’s work. I did the best I could. Leaving all the ‘stuff’ behind was hard, but one of the best things we ever did. It’s quite a come-down to find that some of your favorite things just don’t resonate with someone else.

I look forward now to having the sofa – the last large piece of furniture we bought – to be delivered on June 5th. I’ll take pics of everything to share at that point, though we’ll be looking for plants and art work to decorate.

In the meantime, I’m sure that I have never heard of a cleaning person doing such a nice thing. I’m still smiling! 😃

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Amazing Gift Evolution

This is the box my husband made that turned out to be too small to hold all the markers in the gift bag.

He took it back out to the shop this morning and returned just at lunch time.

Here is the finished marker box, with the addition of the new, larger base on the front of the older box.

Here is a side view of the finished box. I’m thrilled with my new markers AND the box that holds them. I’ll spend a lot of time rearranging the markers to put the colors together and I’m thinking of some sort of cardboard dividers or something to hold them in place better.

A wonderful gift from a wonderful man. Lucky me.

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