The dishwasher is a constant source of battle in our house. As I considered it this week, while once again rearranging dishes my kids put in the wrong spots, I realized I am never more of a Dad than when I\u2019m correcting how they put dishes into the dishwasher.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese can\u2019t go on the bottom rack, they stick through and hit the spray arm!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe good knives have to be hand-washed; the heat of the dishwasher will ruin their handles!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOK, I know I\u2019ve told you this before, the small plates have to go on this end, the large plates on the opposite. Otherwise you can\u2019t get the bowls in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many times do I have to tell you that you have to double-up the bowls like this? Otherwise I have to run the dishwasher twice a day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSure, you\u2019ve been on the high honor roll all year but you can\u2019t put your cups in the right way?\u201d<\/p>\n
Before you call CPS to save my children from an abusive home, I will admit most of these comments are in my head. I\u2019ll open the dishwasher in the morning, sigh loudly at how everything is in the wrong place, and spend the next two minutes rearranging while I have these little conversations in my head. By the time my girls roll through the room I\u2019ve either forgotten about their misdeeds or realized there will be bigger things to yell at them about over the course of the day than how the dishwasher was loaded.<\/p>\n
Still, you\u2019d think they would figure it out, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The dishwasher is a constant source of battle in our house. As I considered it this week, while once again rearranging dishes my kids put in the wrong spots, I realized I am never more of a Dad than when I\u2019m correcting how they put dishes into the dishwasher. \u201cThese can\u2019t go on the bottom rack, they stick through and hit the spray arm!\u201d \u201cThe good knives have to be hand-washed; the heat of the dishwasher will ruin their handles!\u201d \u201cOK, I know I\u2019ve told you this before, the small plates have to go on this end, the large plates on the opposite. Otherwise you can\u2019t get the bowls in.\u201d \u201cHow many times do I have to tell you that you have to double-up the bowls like this? Otherwise I have to run the dishwasher twice a day.\u201d \u201cSure, you\u2019ve been on the high honor roll all year but you can\u2019t put your cups in the right way?\u201d Before you call CPS to save my children from an abusive home, I will admit most of these comments are in my head. I\u2019ll open the dishwasher in the morning, sigh loudly at how everything is in the wrong place, and spend the next two minutes rearranging while I have these little conversations in my head. By the time my girls roll through the room I\u2019ve either forgotten about their misdeeds or realized there will be bigger things to yell at them about over the course of the day than how the dishwasher was loaded. Still, you\u2019d think they would figure it out, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,119,14],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-humor","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9809,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}