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Serious maid skills

Freshly made bed with a blue bedspread in one of the apartments

Queen of ducking out, bone idle, always on the loo when something needs to be done: my eldest knows how to slack like a champ. Until she needs to help getting the apartments ready and she turns out to have some serious maid skills.

When I compliment her I hear my youngest behind me: “mom, that’s not talent, that’s just Lou being autistic”.

Doesn’t matter what it is, what matters is they both helped with preparing an apartment and enjoyed it. Let’s see how long this will last.

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