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A new plan for running our house!

We’ve been watching Downton Abbey on PBS and now I know what’s wrong with our life.   WE HAVE NO SERVANTS!   And I want some.   The idea of having someone obsessed with getting my hair right every day?   And oh, my heavens!   Having it be their job to make my bed and pick up after me?   And my job would be to go to dinner every night and sleep until 10 and come down for a great breakfast someone else has made.   It sounds like Embassy Suites, my favorite hotel.   Of course, I’d have to sit down everyday with cook and plan dinner, but I love sitting down and planning things.   And I’d have someone to drive me around all the time.   Doesn’t that sound relaxing?   Our servants would be smart, nice people like the Downton Abbey servants, and they would love working for me and want my family and me to be happy and have our house look great all the time.   You have to admit, this has its appeal.   I wouldn’t want to be cursed with a social conscience during all this and sta