Staz

3Matt • 24th Mar 2009 • Africa

Staz is our housekeeper. Her real name is Anastasia.

She is pretty much one of the sweetest ladies I know. She’s a decent cook, a decent cleaner, a good laundry lady, and a FANTASTIC hider of things that we want to know the location of.

We’ve affectionately nicknamed her ‘Staz the Stasher’ because she’s always tidying up the house and stashing our stuff in the craziest places so we can’t find things that we used to know where they were located. She’s great at making messes disappear (I suppose we’ve offered her a lot of practice?) and great at putting items of these messes in the weirdest places (to us) that make so much sense to her.

We have a lot of fun with her and she thinks that we’re funny, and Vaughn routinely asks her if she’s seen the movie ‘Maid in Manhattan’ and we all laugh. Not at her, but at the fact that deep down, we think Vaughn has a crush on her.

The picture in this post is from last Saturday morning around noon as I was having some lunch and she was drinking some tea. I wouldn’t let her smile in the picture because I knew it would make her laugh more, and she did laugh like crazy, right up until it was picture time and then she did as I requested, with no reason given. I love this picture and I appreciate Staz very deeply.