Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sun Apr 28, 2019 10:14 pm
I'm exhausted. Dh is still washing dishes. There has got to be a better way to deal with dishes between courses but with dgs around, I haven't figure it out. Logically, as things are dished up, the pots should be rinsed and put into the dishwasher along with other dishes used in prep. Anything that doesn't fit goes into soak. Then between main and dessert, the plates and any emptied serving dishes are loaded, dessert comes out, the dishwasher is started and the door to the kitchen shut to cut the noise.
But no-one is doing the first step and while ds and I put the main course dishes into the washer, nothing had been is soak so everything had dried onto the pots, therefore there was no use putting them into the dishwasher and running it.
Without a place to put away the food, the kitchen further backed up after dessert. I thought dh was dealing with it but something distracted him and hours later when everyone had gone, the table was not clear, the dishwasher still needed loading and the food had now dried not only onto the pots but the silverware so it had to be soaked before it could be washed.
So he's still washing dishes. Ninety minutes after the last person left (but he did not sit with us while people were still here which is why I thought progress was being made on the kitchen.)
Not even the clean dishes in the drainer had been put away - that should have happened after the veggies were put on, so there was a place to put the knives and other slightly dirty things that could have been cleaned up at that point, leaving room on the counters to put the pots in soak. Once the grandkids get here, I'm pulled in too many directions and people do what I tell them to do but they don't do the extras. Or they don't do their assigned tasks because they are busy with kids for instance, I had to start the ham because dsil had the baby and the ham delayed sitting down because he was taking dgs to potty.
The gf sat with dgs at the table while things were put into serving dishes. He started first and finished last, stopping his main course (after 4.5 yorkshire puddings) only when the carrot cake appeared.
Dinner otherwise went well. The turkey wasn't overcooked (no-one thought to check it until I did even though dh knew it was to be done by 4:45.) There was enough stuffing. There was enough gravy and I didn't ruin it this time (I did last time we had the gf for dinner.) Conversation was good although the gf is trying to hard to keep up and interrupting at times to do so.
Ds was pleased I had a cake and candles and we sang for the gf. And I had a present for her. So it was a decent birthday celebration. She and I had a chat in the laundry room while I did a temporary fix on her dress. Some of the sewing notions I had tossed out, she needed so she took them from my giveaway pile.
Before dinner, dgs and I went for a long walk to check on the flooding. It was interesting because two dump trucks came to drop off more sand. The water is now coming up the street sewers so they are building sandbag walls around all the sewers. It was interesting to watch a sewer and see the water level rise, overflow slightly and drain back down to below the grate. That's the wave motion from the river causing that.
This evening just before dark, dh called out to check out the parking lot by the bridge. The waves are now visibly coming in (before it was more seepage like.) Shortly after that, three trucks with sand arrived but it got dark before they left so I don't know if they dumped their loads by the parkway to protect it. No-one is working down there at the moment.
Peak isn't for another 36 hours or so.
) is centering more lately on women in the scriptures. Sadly, that's not easy because most English translations do such a lousy job of clarity regarding women, or it wouldn't require so much research. Clarity. I'll stick with that word but it could certainly be stronger. Part of my class act thoughts were on avoiding irritation 
in order to express what I learn in a gracious manner, without negativity. Anyway, our examples are more inspiring than I've ever been shown and though that's unfortunate for me, discovering more about them is joyous anyway.
