Hello. This is my kind of contest, baby. All you have to do is submit an essay of 250 words or less at the Weiman Products website by July 31 and you can win biweekly maid service for a year from Merry Maids®. Five people will win this grand prize and I, for one, am all over it.

Look for their “Maid for a Year” at weiman.com/contest.

Any mom of a young child will attest to the fact that having someone come in to help with the cleaning would be amazing. Sometimes I feel like my daughter quite literally drips messiness as she moves about the house. I might be wiping up a milk spill in the kitchen and when I walk into the living room I find where she has taken her shoes off and let about a gallon of sand fall out of them and onto the carpet. Then, I move the bedroom to find that she has somehow peppered the entire floor with about 500 Barbie shoes. That doesn’t even take into consideration the normal cleaning that needs done, like bathrooms and the kitchen.

I’m getting tired just thinking about it.