Every day, no matter how often I do them, it seems I have a sink full of dirty dishes. Where do they come from and why am I the only one who knows how to load and unload the dishwasher? Life is full of modern conveniences, things that make our lives easier, make chores take less time, yada, yada, yada. I’m not sure about the dishwasher, the loading and unloading seems to take just as long as doing them by hand. The only time I really like it is when things are really baked on and need to be scrubbed.
Life is so busy we rarely find time to eat together, which means different dinner times, different messy times in the kitchen. I’ve done as much as I can to make this a painless process. I empty the dishwasher as soon as it’s finished running so the next round can immediately go into the dishwasher instead of sitting on the counter. Still it seems that when Hailey makes a mess in the kitchen the dishwasher hasn’t been run or emptied. She seems to have a special knack for that, and apparently she is physically unable to empty the dishwasher.
When I fix dinner I fill the sink with hot soapy water so everything can immediately go in there, be rinsed and put right in the dishwasher. Once they are washed there is the chore of putting them away. I don’t know about you but I have tons of plastic containers and even more lids. I take leftovers to work for lunch most days so I have lots of storage containers. It seems no matter how well I organize them, in a week or two they are back to the same jumbled mess. I need to figure out a way to organize all those lids once and for all.
I wish there was an option besides paper plates. Something completely biodegradable in water or something. Eat dinner take the plates to the garden and spray them with the hose, much easier than washing dishes, and I think I could even get Hailey to do that.