I heard Todd Wilson talk about his book Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe at a homeschool expo a couple of years ago. He talked about this phenomenon of the husband loading the dishwasher wrong and getting in trouble for it. I laughed with everybody else, thinking how superior I am to all those moms who didn't get it.
Well, everyone...I've been humbled again.
Yes, God showed me my uptight and arrogant behavior in the dish washing department.
But in my defense, I will say I thought this was different! My husband isn't the culprit. It's a cute little old lady.
Yes, I have a cute little old (I can say old, she's 91) lady that lives with us and does our dishes. Now before you all stone me for elder abuse, she wants to do it. As a matter of fact, she demanded to be allowed to wash dishes when she moved in with us. That was almost eight years and two sets of dishes ago. She doesn't just wash the dishes, she breaks them too. I don't like the way she does the dishes. She pre-washes them, which is a good thing because if you saw the layers of dishes on the top rack alone, you would wonder how anything gets clean.
But I digress.
I didn't realize that I was just as guilty as the woman who won't let her husband help because he loads the dishes wrong.
So I confessed to the Lord that I am selfish in wanting things done, my way. I refuse to be pulled into the deception that I have control over my dishes anymore. They are just stuff, and she is 91.
I buy Corning Ware now. It hurts the pocket book a little less.
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