Clean Dishes Revelations
House on Red Corner · 2005-11-25
My daughter is sitting in my lap as I study articles about Globalization and Outsourcing Jobs. She is very happy and quite thrilled with exploring my beard and it’s textures. My mind is on many differnent things today as I navigate through the events. While Steph has gone into the city to meet with a friend, EJ and I cleaned up the house. For some reason, watching me clean is a really fun thing for her to do.
It was when I got to the mountain of dishes that the meditative aspects of housework began to ease it’s way into my mind. While I was there, scrubbing and rising pots and pans, a new truth was revealed to me. Yesterday, was My First Grown-up Thanksgiving. I was the Daddy at the head of the table, I carved the turkey, I served the food (which Steph had so fabulously prepared) and I said the prayer.
Since, the dishes are done and there is always more housework to do and not enough cuddles, Squeaky and I are taking a break and catching up on the quiet time. She usually takes a nap in the early evening, so I am holding her in my lap to chill out while I do some studying for school. If I am good, she will totally fall asleep while I am writing this post. In fact she is really, really close right now. Sssssshhh!
oh yes, there she goes, out like a little lamb.