Oh Help! I have 5 students at the moment, I had 6 but 1 went home at the weekend. I am chained to the house by a mammoth amount of domestic drudgery and I hate it. The students are lovely, the sheer amount of work involved in running a mini hotel is NOT. All students are full board so at approxiamately 10 pm every night I am to be found making up lunch boxes for the next day and trying or should I failing to resist the temptation of snacking as I go.
This is an example of my life at the moment. I'm up at 7am to start the breakfasts. Then the table is cleared and set up for evening meal. The house needs hoovering every other day, the kitchen bin has to be emptied daily, I have to do 3 loads of laundry a day, the dishwasherhas to be loaded and emptied twice a day, beds have to be changed weekly, bathrooms loos etc need to be cleaned daily, bathroom bins have to be emptied daily as there as so many teenage girls in the house removing tons of makeup with face wipes etc. I have 11 dinners to do and 9 lunchboxes everyday which includes my own family as all students are full board. And of course on top of that I still have to run around after the littlies, do the school run, ballet lessons, french club and swimming.
Thankfullyit'll all be over by 12th August and we will have the house back to ourselves and I can enjoy the last few weeks of the summer hols with my little ones.
An online account of my quest to live a 'greener' lifestyle with success and failure in equal measures.
