So we don't have a dishwasher, but at least we have an iPod to make it bearable.
We had a dishwasher once in our 7 years of marriage. For about 6 months. Then we moved here. I find myself perusing the old IKEA catalog I have wishing I could have...everything in there. Including a dishwasher. But what's higher on my priority list? Living near beautiful secluded beaches year round, or living near a store with modern home furnishings and convenient appliances? I guess the answer is obvious.
Actually IKEA doesn't sell dishwashers, but if I lived anywhere near an IKEA, chances are I'd have a dishwasher. In fact, at our last place, where we had a dishwasher, they'd just opened an IKEA an hour away. It opened a week before we left.
Samoa's just not "urban". Or "suburban". Maybe it's "rural". I'd say remote, tropical, traditional, village-based, small town, island style, slow goin', ... can anyone think of a good word?
Anyway...
Here's Isaac "helping me" with the dishes a few nights ago. Notice how he splashes water all over both of us, throws soapy dishes around, and DRINKS the dishwater. Even though he makes twice the work, he's more entertaining than the iPod.
P.S. Today I paid someone to do my dishes. It was worth the money.
12 comments:
I hate dishes too! After our first apartment without a dishwasher I have insisited on one ever since. That is cuz I can't afford to pay anywone to do the dishes. I wish I could.
YOU, my tropical-island-living-friend, are an awesome Mom; dishwasher or not.
Man, I think I'd sacrifice the dishwasher to live in paradise! Miss you guys...
Wow. Isaac is advanced.
And BLOND!
When did that happen?
Great idea! I think I should pay someone to do OUR dishes! Why didn't I think of that earlier?! Brian says that is what our kids are for. ;)
Great idea! I think I should pay someone to do OUR dishes! Why didn't I think of that earlier?! Brian says that is what our kids are for. ;)
Bekah hates dishes too, which is why I do about 90 percent of them. But we live in a place where you can let them pile up a bit without being overrun by cockroaches. Although I do wish "people" would rinse out their cereal bowls in the morning at least, so i wouldn't be dealing rock hard encrustations of oatmeal or corn nuggets by dinner time. The kids sometimes ask to help, but so far the answer is mostly no. Although we should probably let them, so by the time they're old enough to be helpful, they are. I actually don't mind doing them at all though, except when I have to let the cereal bowls soak. Jesse
I know! Dishes are not what I want to do at the end of the day. I love it when Scott does the dishes, which we agreed that he would do most often because I do all the cooking. But when he does them, I'm usually by his side drying them, so I still get to experience the achey back, but I don't mind. I've only had a dishwasher at Pam's house, and I was probably the only one who complained about it. It just seemed like every time I needed something, it was dirty, sitting in the dishwasher!
So...that was one of the requirements our house had to have before we bought it this past summer. And though I have a dishwasher, most often it is either full of clean-ready-to-put-away-dishes, which I don't have time to put away, or dirty-but-not-quite-full-enough-to-wash dishes, so the sink remains the piled dumping ground. What's worse, drinking dishwater, or bathwater? (Malia does the latter).
Love, Lani
thank you for commenting on my blog, because now i see that YOU have one as well! maybe i should have already known that, but i didn't, and now i do, and that's all that matters!
i'll post a picture for you soon. . . if i can ever find a time to get patrick to take one of me. by the time he gets home from work, i'm usually all scrounged out in my PJs and not really in the mood to pose!
i loved catching up with your blog! seriously, could ella look MORE like her mom???? it's scary, really. . . she's adorable!
Try having no dishwasher AND no sink. The only water is outside (it is still in the 40's and 50's here) or in the bathroom. So dishes are done in the bathtub. The only good thing is that I can usually beg off because it is so hard on my knee. The kitchen should be done in about 2 weeks. I am SO ready. But at least you have beaches!!
Maybe you could wash the dishes in a bowl of water you hauled from a village pipe? Plenty folks in Samoa do that to. ;)
Or you could switch from dishes to banana leaves? Jus trow away afta...
jk...
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