My dishwasher quit for good before Christmas, and I have washed dishes by hand since. It had quit once before, when he was still around, and he soldered something behind the power button and it worked again. But the power button itself had a whole in the front, so you saw the little dot behind the plastic instead of the nice, flat, plastic push button.
I do not know how to solder, or where to solder, and there was rust on the racks and the front looked awful with the button, so fixing it was a non option.
I am not a fan of most housework, but I have always HATED dishes. I mean bad. I am the wrong height for dishes, it makes my back hurt. And I am too messy, my stomach always gets soaked. And the water has to be really hot, so it's... well, really HOT! But I couldn't pass off the chore to my kids, partly out of guilt for not being able to fix the stupid dishwasher, but mostly out of the inability to face the chance that they would do it wrong and I would eat off of dirty dishes.
Yeah, I know. Uptight.
Anyway, through this trial, as in sooooo many of the trials I have been through, the Lord has helped me to be strengthened, or calmed, or uplifted, or whatever I needed to lessen my burden. And I have learned to play my music, dance, and wash dishes at the same time. My back has not bothered, probably due to the dancing, my hands are not chapped, and I love, love, LOVE the feeling I have when my upbeat playlist is cranked through the house.
That said, I am really happy to announce my new dishwasher arrived today. My beautiful, wonderful, gracious best friend went to my house while I was working in order to let the delivery people drop it off. I had asked her to do so, and I'm thrilled she was able to because otherwise it would have been after this weekend that I finally had it delivered, and I could not have installed it during the week. Which she had offered to help me do as well. Huge levels of gratitude right there.
But then, in an interesting turn of events, while I was at work I got a text message from said friend. It simply read, "My husband and I have earned soda from Cumby's. Your dishwasher is installed and running."
Day. Made.
Week. Made.
Month. Totally made.
2014 is really shaping up to be a great year!
And I'm SOOOO excited to go home and tell the kids to unload and load the dishwasher!!!!! :-)
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