I really, really grappled with a witty name for this post but finally settled on the above. There are so many funny options for the subject at hand that I wanted to choose a title that was relatable and also funny. Here goes the post!
How is it that within 36 hours of dish load completion and empty sink-itis, that a family of 3 can go through all 62 glasses, cups and miscellaneous cups? How is this possible? What kind of new math can this be? Especially because the Child Unit only uses sippy cups and I buy plastic, throw it away cups?!
Here is my hypothesis (H, box, square, rectangle around it) I believe that within the course of 36 hours my lovely Life Partner decides that he is going to try to torture me as I hate doing the dishes. Here is my proof.
In any given day I will drink a morning coffee or tea to get my mind working again while the Doodle Bug drinks from a sippy cup.
Morning total: 1 coffee cup, 1 sippy cup
By lunch time/nap or quiet time, I will go and get a glass of water or iced tea depending on the time of year to drink with my meal. Afterwards I will put it on the counter top ready for action the next time it is needed.
Afternoon Total: 1 coffee cup, 1 sippy cup, 1 large drinking glass
When the Monster gets up from her nap or quiet time, she eats lunch and uses the same sippy cup that she was using for the morning. No need to update the total because it hasn't changed, right? Then comes the evening and dinner time. Doodle usually eats dinner while I have a snack to wait until LP comes home from work so we can actually eat a meal together during some point of the day. The CU gets a new sippy cup filled with milk or a plastic cup and straw because she thinks she's a sophisticate. I refill my glass with a form of liquid.
Evening Total: 1 coffee cup, 2 sippy cups, 1 large drinking glass
The LP comes home and we eat and talk and I get started on my homework and what not. We go to bed and end our day.
Cup Total in our cupboard at 11:59pm: 60
(insert new day)
Cup Total in our cupboard at 8:00am: 12
Cup Total on the teeny bit of counter I have to work with: 45 (there is always 3 outstanding cups hiding somewhere breeding more dirty cups)
How and why are my next questions followed by exasperated gesturing and mouth opening and closing followed by no sound coming out. I am starting to think that there is a midget hiding in our closets waiting for us to go to bed so that he can come out and eat and drink until he is merry. It might be Santa, too. I think he is a sleep-eater.
Le Sigh
-Suzs
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| 62 Glasses and Cups completely clean and stacked to Tetris perfection |
How is it that within 36 hours of dish load completion and empty sink-itis, that a family of 3 can go through all 62 glasses, cups and miscellaneous cups? How is this possible? What kind of new math can this be? Especially because the Child Unit only uses sippy cups and I buy plastic, throw it away cups?!
Here is my hypothesis (H, box, square, rectangle around it) I believe that within the course of 36 hours my lovely Life Partner decides that he is going to try to torture me as I hate doing the dishes. Here is my proof.
In any given day I will drink a morning coffee or tea to get my mind working again while the Doodle Bug drinks from a sippy cup.
Morning total: 1 coffee cup, 1 sippy cup
By lunch time/nap or quiet time, I will go and get a glass of water or iced tea depending on the time of year to drink with my meal. Afterwards I will put it on the counter top ready for action the next time it is needed.
Afternoon Total: 1 coffee cup, 1 sippy cup, 1 large drinking glass
When the Monster gets up from her nap or quiet time, she eats lunch and uses the same sippy cup that she was using for the morning. No need to update the total because it hasn't changed, right? Then comes the evening and dinner time. Doodle usually eats dinner while I have a snack to wait until LP comes home from work so we can actually eat a meal together during some point of the day. The CU gets a new sippy cup filled with milk or a plastic cup and straw because she thinks she's a sophisticate. I refill my glass with a form of liquid.
Evening Total: 1 coffee cup, 2 sippy cups, 1 large drinking glass
The LP comes home and we eat and talk and I get started on my homework and what not. We go to bed and end our day.
Cup Total in our cupboard at 11:59pm: 60
(insert new day)
Cup Total in our cupboard at 8:00am: 12
Cup Total on the teeny bit of counter I have to work with: 45 (there is always 3 outstanding cups hiding somewhere breeding more dirty cups)
How and why are my next questions followed by exasperated gesturing and mouth opening and closing followed by no sound coming out. I am starting to think that there is a midget hiding in our closets waiting for us to go to bed so that he can come out and eat and drink until he is merry. It might be Santa, too. I think he is a sleep-eater.
Le Sigh
-Suzs
must be elves!
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