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Show I already knew they didn't do dishes p.g. blah MARCELLA ) WALKER One of my favorite Christmas presents was a gift from the girls. It is a wall hanging that has a darling picture of them on it and it says, "We love you . . . But, we don't do dishes". They didn't need to tell me, I already knew. Neither do they do their laundry, their bathrooms, their bedrooms, their picking up, their other chores, nor their walking anywhere. They do do their nails, their hair, their talking on the phone, their homework (which is pretty neat), their partying, their dancing, their movies, their ballgames, their makeup, their eating, their riding in cars, their watching Of TV and their watching of videos. Nonetheless, I have hung this colorful wall hanging in the kitchen where we can all see it a lot. Like I say, it is really a very nice picture of the girls and the idea brings lots of conversation to the kitchen. Our kitchen is like a family room, everyone congregates there. The kids friends come and they sit around the table and chat for hours The married family members come and everyone is always hungry so we sit around the table and snack. Neighbors come in while we are having dinner and they sit down at the table and visit while we finish eating. Actually, the kitchen is the only place in the house where one can usually find a place to sit. I really shouldn't say that because Anyway, there is a lot of trattic in the kitchen and the wall hanging about the girl's "we don't do dishes" attracts a lot of attention. To tell the truth, it is getting harder and harder to get the dishes done at our house. It used to be that I did the cooking, someone cleared out the dishwasher and set the table, someone cleared the table and filled the dishwasher and someone did the garbage and vacuuming of the kitchen. No more. We are losing the hired help. One has gone off to college. She is not here to do her chore, even though one child at home thinks we should save up the work for her to do when she comes home, which is only a couple of times a quarter. We don't have enough dishes nor enough cabinet space to wait for her to come home. Another, who was away from home on a mission, has decided that there is no time in his schedule for chores. He would rather die than do a kitchen chore. How better to pay for ones board and room than by doing an occasional chore, I ask you? That leaves only one of the hired help. She can't be asked to do all of it. She will do one of the chores. She rarely complains about that. Guess who does the rest? Now you know why it is getting harder and harder to get the dishes done at our house. 1 uacu lu veil in y lllOLfier would grow up and marry -who owned a paper plate facto" that I did not have to do dishes' is how much I enjoyed it as act Actually, doing dishes isn't bad. Especially if the dishwast-: already cleaned out and there"; not more dishes than the disk;; will hold and there are notanv. with stuck on food that haver done by hand. Other jobs at our house fe have trouble getting done; cleaning the windows on Ihe ot painting the trim on the house ; putting salt in the water sofa? I usually have no trouble je someone to go to the store fe; especially if they just jot f, drivers license. It is easioj someone to go to the Fife snack. Anyone will go totes There is no one who will tefc chance to go for a Big Gulp. Just try and find someoneti: when you call them, to eat-dinner eat-dinner is ready, to cfc bathroom, to sweep the fronts to mow the lawn, to clear ther. to pick up' after themselves ;'. garbage in the trash barrel : wake up from a Sunday air ' nap. But when it gets down to tit: gritty, I will have to call the:: ( They say they don't do dishes L don't give out money for ar. j until the dishes are done. W; win, do you think? j the living room often has a place for people to sit but no one goes in that room. It is a passing-through room to get to the kitchen. The home teachers and visiting teachers are the only ones who ever use the living room. The family room, we really do have one, has the couches and chairs covered with books, papers, clothing from those who have arrived home from school or work and just dropped everything where they were standing. There is no safe place to sit. Sometimes there is no place to sit in the kitchen, either. There are often sweaters, sweatshirts, or the like that can't go in the dryer that end up smoothed over the seats of the kitchen chairs to dry. |
