Sunday, March 21, 2010


Hi my dear!
Welcome here again to our meeting room, I was already missing you.
Seat down and make yourself comfortable, today I’ve made green tea. It´s delicious!
You can have some delicious crepes with hot chocolate cream…
Well today I would like to talk to you about cleaning! First of all, this may seem an useless subject, but it´s something very important in the life of any woman who wants to became a good housewife and a Lady. My friend… Do you think a Lady doesn´t clean the house? Do you think she should have waitresses? That is not being a Lady, that is having money to pay someone to clean your home. Money can buy many things but being a Lady in all areas of your life is something that money can´t buy. What I mean is that dedicating yourself to cleaning and maintenance of your house is a very noble task. Not something dirty or inferior which a Lady should never do. In opposite, it´s something very chic and pleasant for the ones who live there as also to its visitors.
No my friend, I am not saying with this that I am a cleaning maniac, in fact all my life I have been a couch potato! Any physical exercise to me has been always a huge sacrifice. The excuses that I used to give to do nothing at home were the craziest! My father, who is a cooking lover, always wanted to teach me how to cook and used to say:
-Do you want to learn how to cook? Daddy teaches you.
-No father I don´t have to learn how to do anything in the 21st Century. – I used to say, not convinced at all.
-But these are things you have to know for your life! You have to learn, everybody has. - he used to say, trying to convince me.
Then I would say with indifference:
-Father, Madonna can´t cook! if she can´t cook I don´t have to know it as well!
(Father)- …….

This is for you to see my dear, before I became someone that submits herself to the will of God, I used to create such stupid concepts, you can even laugh.
How would my life be without this step of dedicating myself to be a future good housewife? Now I imagined in my head an image in black and white… me with a ragged apron, hair rolls in my hair, a scarf holding the rolls, a baby crying in my arms while I try to calm him down in a desperate movement. The Chaos surrounding me, clothes all over the place, my home all dirty, my husband seated on the sofa with a gym suit full of food stains, screaming at me because of the dinner and me crying, revolted in the same rhythm of the baby´s crying… EWWW NOOO!!! Well because I don’t want this to happen I decided to fight my laziness and become the cleaning master TA-DA!
I thought about copying my aunt Adelina, she´s really a cleaning maniac, it´s incredible how she doesn´t get tired and has always everything very clean in her home… but then I remembered of her excessive fear of microbes! One time she went to the doctor, desperate because the skin of her mouth was falling. She thought that she had some disease… then they discovered that her skin was falling because she was always washing her mouth due to the microbes! Nah, too much craziness for my taste… I have to follow the middle term, the equilibrium, this is what I will search for.
Oh my friend initially was difficult, for someone who is a couch potato. It is necessary to give the first step, and make cleaning a daily habit. Besides the fact that I have already evolved and started to clean with more frequency, I want to have the ability and energy to clean every day.
First I bought some gloves to give it a more professional look (hehehe), after that I started letting go of my internet addiction and then I put cleaning as my main goal. I asked for some advice to my friend Cristiane (she´s an awesome housewife), and I entered in an Orkut´s Community to ask for some tips (with a fake profile of course, I don’t want no one to know about my laziness). Heheheh…
Now every time I clean and look at my clean house I feel good and proud of myself, and that must be the most important step through our limitations- bad habits, with effort to reach something better to our lives.
Oh of course my dear that I am not yet a cleaning lady. Some days I clean and then some days I am like dead, resting and trying to recover heheheh. An habit comes with time, and for it to come, it´s necessary to have patience and persistence!
Winning over my laziness I imagine something different: me with a pink and feminine dress, in my arms a smiling baby, my house organized and clean with a very good smell, my husband with nice clothes and happy inviting me for a walk in the park (once my home is shinning) or my friends visiting me and being all fascinated with my clean house.
So, having a house is a big responsibility and, in my opinion, a woman must do whatever she can to build a happy, healthy and welcoming home. It´s not easy to build a family and to maintain it, so every effort and dedication are necessary.
In conclusion, the woman who has the ability to build her house based on cleaning and organization is for sure a Lady ;).
Well my dear, time is up, it was very nice to have you here in our meeting, kisses darling, see you next time. I will wait impatiently for our next reunion^^

1 comment:

  1. Assalamu 'alaykum dear sister

    Well done! It's nice to know that you have translated your texts to english. MashAllah, from now on, more sisters will be able to meet us to have some tea. =D

    Fi aman Allah

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