alone again, naturally

I lost my secondary housekeeper a couple of weeks ago.  Well, I didn't "lose" her, she just dropped off the face of the earth.  Went to Phoenix for a trip while we were on vacation and never came back.  I had been thinking it wasn't working out, so it was not a great loss.

Now I'm losing my primary housekeeper, leaving me with... none.  Again.  My "big three" banes of being an innkeeper are, in no particular order, 1-having someone call in the middle of the night to make a reservation; 2-guests who don't show up when they say they will and leave you waiting for hours; and 3-losing a housekeeper or having one who's not reliable.  I say in no particular order because whatever is the one that is causing me the most grief at the moment is the worst one--at that moment. 

In a way, I can't blame her.  We can only give her 20-25 hours per week and she needs 40 hours.  She's living in a one-bedroom apartment with her boyfriend, her brother, his wife, and their toddler.  Guess who's sleeping in the living room?  She's also attending community college on one of those lottery scholarships.  She and her boyfriend want to move out into a place of their own, and they can't do it on what we pay her, so she's found another job at 40 hours a week.  We can't help but think that pretty soon school will fall by the wayside as she will probably have to work the late shift in order to accommodate her school schedule.  Between keeping a home, going to school, and working full-time, what usually bites the dust?  I'm afraid it will be school.

I hope that's not the case.  So far she's grown and matured incredibly in the year and a half that she's worked for us.  I hope she will continue in school, be successful, and find her place in life.  We wish her well.

In the meantime, we're without housekeeper.  Again.  Alone again, naturally.