keeping Body and Soul together

I gotta change these photos from last summer and replace them with some shots of Paris which probably means that I have to learn how to upload pix rather than ask for someone else to do it. There are many things I don't know how to do, don't really want to know how to do or don't want to do. Does this make me a bad person? i think not. Our housekeeper is going on vacation for 2 weeks and I, poor darling, will be faced with using the damn vacuum cleaner-- there is always a first time -- doing laundry which I won't do, I will hand wash stuff and in general taking care of the apartment. If there is anything that sends me into a dead faint it is housework.

Cooking, even in the summer, is fine. Although this summer I've discovered a wonderful little cafe that is half a block away from the house and so I can swan in there at 7 or so and go home with a delicious dinner that I haven't made. I am now stock piling recipes for our week in Maine because that is the time that I do what I would call Mommy cooking. Arnie will do some cooking but it's basically 3 meals a day for the girls - Kate plus Lile, Arnie, me and Grandma Dot.