Help!

The time has come for us to try to find some type of housekeeping service. We are thinking once every 10-14 days? I don't think very many people in NY really read this blog, BUT. If anyone does, and has had a good experience with a particular cleaning service or individual, could you leave a comment? (Look, we have comments now! We actually apparently had them the entire time, they were just "hidden", but I'm not really clear on what that means).

We have been very reluctant to start something like this, because an enormous part of me thinks: (1) We should be able to clean our own apartment, and (2) it's kind of expensive, and I would rather go shopping (except that I NEVER ACTUALLY GO shopping, so that this claim really rings a little bit hollow), or just be that much more financially secure, or whatever.

But number 1 is false. We can't really do it anymore. We do do it, we do clean, and do our own laundry, and so on, and cook most nights, and so on....but it is killing us, and we sometimes go for very long periods in between, say, having any clean clothes. It is far and away the number one source of tension between Matt and I, and it's really frustrating because we don't have enough time to get everything done *well*, and then we feel frustrated when, for instance, we don't get any sleep, or do get sleep but score below the mean on our pharmacology test (ok, this is obviously just referring to me, but Matt has his own frustrations too) when really we shouldn't. Last year it was a little easier because we had a full-time nanny for Naomi who also did the dishes, made Naomi's lunch, swept and mopped twice a week, did our laundry, and helped clean up a lot of Naomi's stuff. But now Naomi is in daycare, and life is a struggle. So.

Any recommendations?