Rich people problems

**Quick update:  I wanted to explain my title.  I realized if you do not attend my church, you may take the title the wrong way.  Andy (my pastor) did a sermon a while back where he talked about "rich people problems".  His point was that compared to the rest of the world, every one of us are rich.  It has helped me keep perspective when I start to feel like a have-not, instead of the very obvious have that I am.  The title was my way of acknowledging that this is not really a problem, not my way of bragging about our financial circumstances!

I'm having a very strange quandry.    I will say at the outset that I am well aware that this not exactly a life-altering problem, but it's what I've been thinking about the past couple days and it's my blog, so here goes!
Pretty much since Harper was born, I have thought that having someone come clean my house on a regular basis sounded as close to heaven as I would ever see on this Earth.  But, of course, when I stayed home this was both unnecessary and no where near possible financially. At the beginning of last summer, I heard that my previous boss at church was maybe going to be moving to follow her husband's job.  At that time Jason and I were talking about what it would take to entice me to go back to work full-time (in the event that she moved and they offered me her job).  The first thing on my list was that it would have to provide enough money to cover childcare AND a maid.  Well, she didn't move, but I didn't actually go back to work for her, so that conversation was somewhat forgotten.  However, after about a month in to working 3 days a week, I quickly remembered why that was first on my list.  I find that there are truly not enough hours in the day to get it all done and keep my sanity.  Because I am paid for 30 hours of work a week, but only work 24 in the office, I have to make up 6 hours at home.  That basically works out to an hour a night.  Well, by the time the kids go to bed and we have cleaned up supper and straightened up, it's 9:00.  Then add my hour of work and we're looking at 10:00.  Anyone want to start deep cleaning their house at 10:00 at night?  I do have Wednesdays and Fridays, but those are our play/errand days.  I don't want to spend the 2 days I have at home with my kids cleaning.  I am quickly beginning to realize that my days at home with Garrett are drawing to a close and I don't want to look back and think that I had my priorities in the wrong place.  And perhaps the most convincing argument is that cleaning a house while 2 small children are at play is basically like pushing a rock up a hill.  I can think of maybe a handful of times when my entire house was clean all at the same time.  In order for the downstairs to be clean, I have to send the kids upstairs, which means the upstairs is a mess and vice versa.  Or I get finished cleaning the kitchen and move into the family room and just as I get that cleaned I turn around and Harper is dumping her juice out on my freshly mopped floor.  Oh, and did I mention the dogs?  Yeah, don't forget the shedding and muddy dog prints everywhere.  Good times.
Clearly, I am a walking advertisement for someone who could use the services of a maid.  However, during January and February our pastor did a sermon series on finances that our small group followed along with.  So bugeting and money and saving has dominated Jason and I's conversations here lately.  But, as I mentioned in an earlier post, my husband rocks at his job and has been rewarded financially for it.  In doing our buget in January I realized that hiring a maid was just not possible after getting the minivan (and I'd take the minivan everyday and twice on Sundays over a maid!).  But now with his raise, it seems that we can make a maid fit into our budget.  I have been lobbying for this for quite a long time and when word of his raise came in, it was the first thing I mentioned.  But now that the glorious time has arrived, I find myself dragging my feet about it.  We have really been trying to build up our savings and would really like to get the Honda paid off quickly.  I think I feel guilty about getting a maid.  On one hand I long to come home to a sparkly clean house, but on the other I come up with all these other things we could (and maybe should) do with the extra money.  Plus, it doesn't seem wise to up our expenses.  One thing that we'd really like to avoid is upping our lifestyle every time Jason gets a raise.  At some point, enough needs to be enough.
So I don't know what I'm going to do.  I've got the think about it a little longer.  Feedback always appreciated.