I need a maid...

I have never professed to be the model housewife, and after having a baby, I'm even worse. I find myself a little envious of those women who appear to "do it all" and wonder how they find the time or motivation to take care of their children, their house, and their husband (which means, "cooking"). I love to cook but I only make a home-cooked meal once a week. I like a clean house, but I don't like to clean it. I have ambitious goals for how our house should look but I don't make the time (or set aside the money) to rearrange or redesign it. What I DO make time for is spending time with our baby. I work 40 - 45 hours a week outside of our home and I think about Anya at least once during all of those hours. I tell myself, "If I didn't work, I would have a clean house, food on the table, and blah, blah, blah perfect everything". WRONG! That's not me, and if I didn't work, I would spend most of the day playing with Anya, taking her around to family and friends' houses to visit, and probably spend way too much time shopping for more adorable clothes that she surely needs. J
I think it's wonderful that there are women out there who really have it together, but lucky for me, my husband did not marry one of those women. He married me, and he knew that although our house always needs dusted, there's always some sort of laundry piled up, and I tend to do my cleaning around 11pm...I can still be a loving wife and mother, and when I do cook, I knock his socks off!
So my strategy is...do the best I can, put Kyle and Anya first, and find a maid to keep the house clean. J