Source: Southern Living
BigSIS and I had lunch together today while theBOY worked and lilBRO napped.
I’m really going to miss lunching with her when I return to work next week. Some of our best conversations happen at lunch.
Take today’s, for example.
I finished before her (as usual), and turned to check out our kitchen set-up.
“What you doing, Mom?” she asked.
“I’m thinking, honey.”
We usually forget that our 26-month old is 26 months old, so I continued.
“I”m trying to figure out how to make a dishwasher fit in here.”
The next question reminded me that she is, in fact, two years old.
“What’s a dishwasher?”
Then the conversation went something like this…
It’s the thing at your grandma’s house that washes the dishes. You know, you get to push the button to start it. Everyone else we know (except one other poor soul and friend of mine) has one. Yada. Yada. Yada.
I turned from her again.
“What you thinkin’ about now, Mom?”
(Yes, she recently started calling me “mom” instead of mommy. I’m not worried about it, though, because this comes after a stint of calling me “mama” for days on end.)
This time I didn’t turn back to answer.
“I’m still thinking about the dishwasher,” I replied. “And if we should get one.”
“We have a sink.”
We have a sink, she said.
Yes, we do, don’t we?
We have a sink.
She’s watched me wash dishes in our sink for months. She’s even helped me wash dishes in that sink. And? She loves it.
In that moment, her two-year-old mind pointed out what my 30 {something} year old mind often forgets.
We have a sink. And not just a sink.
We have a home, two cars, warm beds, enough food, puh-lenty of toys.
See, I get wrapped up in what we DON’T have. But bigSIS doesn’t know what we don’t have (yet).
She doesn’t know there’s a whole world of stuff we don’t have.
Stuff we don’t need.
Today, I wished I didn’t know the stuff we don’t have. Because we obviously don’t need it. We’re doing just fine.
Yes, we have a sink.
And, for today, that’s enough.
What is it that you don’t have and, just maybe, don’t need today?
~theGIRL
Love this! Two year olds are wonderful for putting life into perspective!
They sure do. Gotta write it all down now so we don’t forget when they grow up!
BigSIS is one awesome, smart little girl
I grew up without a dishwasher and I survived! Once bigSIS and lilBRO are old enough, you will never have to touch another dirty dish. That’s what kids are for. At least that’s what my non-dishwasher mom always told me!
Looking forward to the day bigSIS can handle the dishes without supervision!!
Hey S…Add me to the list of people who don’t have a dishwasher. But, we both get to drink really good coffee and tea!!!
Yes! Yes we do. In fact, I’m off to brew a cup right now!!!!
Something I don’t have? Soft hands. Lol! I was just thinking today that between changing diapers and washing dishes, my poor hands look about ten years older than the rest of my body.
But, like Melissa said, I have two boys that I’m prepping to take over my dish empire soon! And for that I am thankful!
Child labor is way cheaper than redoing a kitchen, huh?
Oh yeah, my hands are a mess!
Something to think about. And just so you know, I grew up without a dishwasher…we have one now and I prefer to wash dishes in the sink! It’s one of those mindless activities that’s kind of enjoyable to me.
I vote for a vacation over a kitchen remodel! 