The literal machines in your house machine
And when they break down: a chaos story.
I know we’ve all had days like this:
Solo parenting
Two kids home sick
Several overdue projects you urgently need to address
One kid clogs the toilet
Then you realize your packed-full dishwasher didn’t run last night because it’s broken
Life is challenging enough when all our systems are up and running, but when one fails, you start to see how vital each piece of the house machine really is.
A dishwasher is just one small part of the house, but when you rely on it working, you don’t have the space for it to stop working. Now there are no dishes for breakfast because you don’t keep a ton of extra dishes. You don’t have time to wash the dishes by hand because two sick, cranky kids need to be fed NOW. And the pileup compounds throughout the day.
After a brief (or not so brief) moment of panic, I took some deep breaths, grabbed some quick snacks for the kids, emptied the dishwasher, washed everything and put it back into the dishwasher to dry. I talked myself down by r…