The War on Dishes

{5-minute post}

I've always struggled with keeping up with laundry and dishes.  I know this is not an uncommon problem, as PLENTY of my friends commiserate.  I will admit, however, that before we moved from Washington to Arkansas, I was doing TREMENDOUSLY better in both areas.  Then... we moved in with my parents for three months and were basically living out of suitcases, so I did a load of laundry every-other-day, and I felt like it was easier to "keep up,"... but I STILL struggled with getting it folded and put away!  For SOME reason, that part continued to befuddle me....

NOW, we have ALL of our clothing at our disposal once again, and it is AMAZING how much laundry can pile up on the couch... and yet we STILL have nearly-full closets and dressers... PLUS there are piles of DIRTY clothes still waiting to be WASHED!  [And, before any of you neat-nicks suggest that I simply "get rid of some clothes," let me stop you there.  I KNOW we need to get rid of some things.  That's NOT what I'm talking about today.  Thank you. Carry on.]

TODAY, I want to talk about dishes.  Since we moved into this house two months ago, I've struggled as much (if not MORE) with keeping up with dishes because we have NO DISHWASHER.  I told my husband when we moved in, "Oh, it won't be that big of a deal.  We can just teach the girls to help out with the dishes.  It will be fine."

Well, friends, let me tell you that it most definitely is not FINE!

{Shoot.  My 5 minutes is up.  I'll have to continue this later.  I haven't even gotten into the meat n' potatoes!}

Until next time....

:)