Saturday, January 9, 1926
Worked hard all day to get the house cleaned and Sunday dinner ready so as I could go to Sunday school in the morning. Even put the meat in the cooker intending to warm it up tomorrow. Surely I would be free tomorrow I thought until evening. Boys bathing one by one while I was trying to get supper and I had to stop and help them. Ned cried for his bath and I bathed him, making supper late. By that time Marjorie was through her day time nap and not ready for her night and by time I got her settled I was so tired and sleepy. Washing dishes was out of the question so the object of the day was lost. I can’t go to Sunday school with the kitchen full of dirty dishes.
(Aunt Marjorie wrote, "I think by the time Ned and I were the ages that Dale & Dick were in 1926, we were washing dishes!" Perhaps she thinks Dale & Dick should have helped out with those dishes. And where was Gilbert?
I'll admit I've left my house with dirty dishes still in the sink, I'm sure others have, am I right about that?)
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I have left dirty dishes in the sink. But we have something that Grandma didn't have: a dishwasher. Just load it up and you don't have to look at the dirty dishes.
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What would we do without our many appliances
ReplyDeleteIn a pinch you could hide them in the oven, too! We think very differently about our priorities nowadays, don't we?
ReplyDeleteI think it is interesting that Ruth did not feel she could leave the house without her dishes washed. Amazing how different it is today. Even growing up in the 60's and 70's my memories of my mom are of her always cleaning -- either cleaning or sewing. Now,it just doesn't seem that much of a priority. I have a friend who says "As long as your guest has a clean toilet seat and a clean glass, that's all they really want."
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