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Love it! What a great way to think of dirty dishes. Did you make this or purchase it somewhere, if so where? It would make a great gift. Now if they had one for dirty laundry
I read a sign recently that said something like, “I’m thankful for dirty laundry. It means my loved ones are near.”
Ditto with the dishes as well. It is hard when they leave home and have no time for you. The dishes and laundry get a lot easier but then you also have more time on your hands to miss them.
Janet I want to thank you for your post. I miss my son so badly that my heart hurts. He moved in with my ex and I am alone w/our lil pup whom I rely on. My life is now my own and I am starting a new chapter. Thank you!
Wonderful!!!!! I am taking a print of this, framing it right above my kitchen sink…..
That’s a great idea!
On Scotty McCreery’s new cd he has a song called Dirty Dishes. It goes along with this concept and as a mother I love the song.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this song! This is what the picture reminded me of and I was going to comment the same thing.
I told my husband that he needed to listen to it as well, it’s our new “theme song for life”. Beautiful & true!
Reminds me of one of my favorite verses “Where there are no oxen the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of an ox.” Proverbs 14:4
if this way was a scale on how blessed we are, I would be the most blessed person on the planet…. well at least today. That being said, I think its time I finally load the dishwasher……
My mom had a plaque over the sink when I was a kid with this saying on it. I have it memorized!
I think I need to forward this to my hubby!!
jenetta
Thanks for posting this. On stressful days (which have been more often than not lately) I catch myself imagining that I must be the last woman on earth who doesn’t have a dishwasher and still hand washes everything. A big fat pity party. I needed a good swift kick in the rear.
You’re not alone! I don’t have one either!
YAY! I’m not alone!! But, bless your heart!
I have one, but I hate it! I prefer washing by hand … at least you know they’re clean the first time
I don’t have a dishwasher either. I recently started sticking Bible verses above the sink so I can memorize them while washing the dishes. It’s a good time to pray, too.
(Not that I always have a great attitude about doing the dishes, but praying sure helps!)
Almost all Hispanic’s wash them by hand. I am one of them. I have to put a frame like this somewhere by my kitchen sink. love it thanks for sharing
That’s so true Ana! No one in my family has a dishwasher and we prefer to do it by hand
I love our heritage!
I have one, but it doesn’t work.
So we use it for a dish rack. It is quite a bit of washing with lots of little people (5 under 5), but the poem helps. My mom had us memorize that one when we washed dishes at home!
You are SO not alone! I don’t have one either. Oh how I’d love a dishwasher lol!!
Love it!! A similar poem hung in my grandmother’s kitchen until she moved to the nursing home.
I love it. My sister in law got us a sign one year. It said “My house was clean last week, sorry you missed it”.
Yes! I am also thankful for my dirty laundry piles because it is evidence of the wonderful husband and four beautiful children God has blessed me with. I’m thankful for my dirty floors because it means I have a house to live in. On and on I could go because I am SO blessed!!
Love It! I grew up with with that very saying hanging in our kitchen.
Thanks for the memories.
My grandma also had a cross-stitch of this above her sink. I memorized it when I was little and we went to her house every Wednesday. She passed away about 10 years ago, thank you for this welcome reminder
We had this posted above the sink at home when I was growing up, only ours said “thank God” at the beginning and the end, instead of “thank Heaven.” I read it so many times, I memorized it and it has stuck with me all these years. I am thankful! An encouragement to Moms — I do not have the privilege of being one — post up verses, poems, anything you want your kids to learn. They likely will, like I did.
Just now reading the other comments and seeing that I was not the only one with this in my home who had memorized it.
I need this above my sink – where did you spot it?
Perfect. I had just taken a picture of all of the dishes piled up in (and around!!) my sink as a testament to all that I had been busy doing, and all that I intended NOT to worry about tonight!! I decided that “Something’s gotta give- and tonight (and, truthfully many nights) it’s the dishes!! Thanks for posting just what I needed to see tonight. Glad to know I’m not alone…
http://teachinggoodeaters.blogspot.com/2011/10/somethings-gotta-give.html
I found this poem in my mother’s recipe box. She died about 15 years ago and loved to cook. It’s an oldie, but a goodie!!
look up “Green Beans” by the West Girls on http://www.youtube.com it is a great song about thankfulness
Thanks for the reminder. I will have to remember it also applies to dirty laundry, messy rooms and cobwebs in the corners. If I didn’t have all of those it would mean no family to make dirty laundry and no home to get dirty and messy. Thanks for the blessing reminder.
Thank you for posting this! My grandfather used to own a printing shop (30 years ago!) and he would print little cards with sayings or poems on the “extra” margins of orders. This poem was one of my favorites. I still have one of them that he printed posted next to my kitchen sink. Thanks for making me smile this morning.
This made me remember a poem my mom (and her friends) knew and shared with us – although we only knew the third verse (when I searched I found the whole thing!).
Song for a Fifth Child
by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
For children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.
Oh, thank you! I have only ever known the last verse and I recite it to myself frequently as I rock my baby (4th baby) just a few minutes longer…I love reading the whole thing!
Very timely inspiration for me. Over twenty years of doing dishes was reaching the numbing point for me this fall. This snaps me back with great perspective. Thank you!
Thank you for this fun post! I’ll never look at the pile of dirty dishes the same!!
I, too, am making a Publisher document out of this. Found some cute dirty dishes clipart on line. I’ll print it, frame it and hang it over my sink. Sometimes it takes funny sayings like this to really realize how blessed we are!!!!!!
I love this ryhme! It has been taped up by my kitchen sink for a while and helps us to keep perspective and be thankful!
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