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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
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We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
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Okay, discovered today that washing dishes while out on Boy Scout campouts does NOT translate to washing dishes in the kitchen sink!!!!
I actually had to give DS a dish washing lesson today!!!!! He was just grabbing a dish, getting it wet, scrubbing it with soapy sponge and then rinsing it and putting it in the dish drainer! REALLY????? It was going to take him ALL day to do the dishes at that rate!!!!
I actually had to show him how to do this from stacking the dirty ones to draining the clean ones!!!
I have been kinda lax about making him do some chores. He has a few that he has to do and does well, but sometimes for somethings it's just easier to do it myself and that has been a mistake on my part. One I now have to rectify! Oh, well. He did the dishes and did a good job and now doesn't feel like it's an overwhelming job like he did when I called and told him to get to work on them this morning! Maybe he will have a greater appreciation of clean dishes from now on!!!!
Thinking laundry is next.....
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All my kids started doing their own laundry as soon as they were teens. To me it's an easy chore and my the time my kids were teens, they preferred I not touch their clothing.
I still do all the dishes, although my kids do run the dishwasher when I am not home. My DD used to lvoe doing dishes by hand when she was yunger-realy good water play.
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At Girl Scout camp, washing the dishes consists of 3 buckets of water heated on the fire (an all day event, sometimes). The dishes from each girl are put in a mesh bag, like a lingerie bag, and then dunked in each bucket - the first is just hot water - swish the bag around to get all of the bits and pieces off, then the second bucket is sudsy water - swish. The third and final bucket has about 1 tablespoon of chlorine bleach for every gallon of water in it. Swish the dishes in this, and then hang the bag from the same line the girls hang their bathing suits, towels, washcloths and other items from! I kind of think the BS way may be a better, cleaner solution!
Here, dishes are supposed to be done by whoever didn't cook (I usually cook), but I usually end up doing them! I just started a load, as a matter of fact!
Um .... so, how are you "supposed" to do the dishes, then? BEcause what you describe, is pretty much how I've done them my whole life ...
He didn't even have a sink of soapy water, just the sinkful of dirty dishes. He would pick one up, turn on the water (mostly cold) get it a little wet, scrub it with semi-soapy sponge then rinse in cold water (didn't want to burn himself I guess) and then into the drainer.
I usually empty the sink, fill with hot soapy water, fill with dirty dishes, scrub each dish and put in other sink, then rinse clean dishes with HOT water and then to the drainer. Goes a lot faster.
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At Girl Scout camp, washing the dishes consists of 3 buckets of water heated on the fire (an all day event, sometimes). The dishes from each girl are put in a mesh bag, like a lingerie bag, and then dunked in each bucket - the first is just hot water - swish the bag around to get all of the bits and pieces off, then the second bucket is sudsy water - swish. The third and final bucket has about 1 tablespoon of chlorine bleach for every gallon of water in it. Swish the dishes in this, and then hang the bag from the same line the girls hang their bathing suits, towels, washcloths and other items from! I kind of think the BS way may be a better, cleaner solution!
Here, dishes are supposed to be done by whoever didn't cook (I usually cook), but I usually end up doing them! I just started a load, as a matter of fact!
The boys have two buckets. One with heated soapy water and one with bleach laced clean water for rinsing. They are supposed to scrap their mess kits BEFORE putting them in the soapy water for washing. Each boy is responsible for cleaning his own mess kit (so sometimes I think they get wiped out with a paper towel...) and then someone who didn't cook is responsible for washing the cooking dishes. The dutch oven gets filled with water and put back on the coals to heat up and scrubbed out and then back into the fire to dry out. The boys really prefer to eat stuff that doesn't require much in the way of cooking utensils....pocket dinners are a favorite. Wrap up the food in a tin foil, drop in the coals for 15-20 minutes, pull out, open up and voila!...dinner. And clean up is a matter of wadding up the foil and throwing it away. The only "dishes" to clean are a knife and cutting board (used only if there are vegetables or potatoes involved in the pocket dinner).
Anyway - DS managed to get the dishes done. He won't have to wash today - just put away the few in the drainer. He does, however, get to find the driveway....we got a three or four inches of light fluffy snow and the driveway needs a good clean up before the next dump.
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He didn't even have a sink of soapy water, just the sinkful of dirty dishes. He would pick one up, turn on the water (mostly cold) get it a little wet, scrub it with semi-soapy sponge then rinse in cold water (didn't want to burn himself I guess) and then into the drainer.
Other than the water temperature, this is how I've done dishes all my life.
That sinkful of soapy water will soon be (a) cold, and (b) dirty. After a big meal, I'd end up draining, rinsing, and refilling the sink twice or maybe three times, if I did dishes your way.
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