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Submitted by solinox on Sat, 05/10/2003 - 16:20
There are times when I don't get the dishes put away immediately. In fact, there are times when the dishes from a particular meal, snack, or cooking episode don't get put into the dishwasher for a full day. These are usually times when there is a lot going on, when I've had to leave the house right after eating and don't come back until bedtime, when the kids have been bouncing off the walls and I haven't had the time to put the dishes away, things like that.

I have occasionally fussed at Brian for not putting the dishes away after a meal when he's watching the kids while I work. They'll have eaten breakfast, and lunchtime rolls around and I'll go downstairs and the dishes will still be on the table, the floor unswept. He claims that I'm holding him to a "double standard," that if I don't make myself put the dishes away all the time, right away, that I have absolutely no right to complain about how fast he does it.

There's a key difference here, I think. He's generally spending his time with the kids in front of the TV. My time, with or without kids, is either working, doing laundry, cooking, feeding/changing the baby, herding the kids, running errands, mowing the lawn, getting groceries, etc. I never sit down and just watch TV with the kids; I don't have time!