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I have carried this burden for more than four years.<\/p>\n<p>You see, we don\u2019t have a dishwasher. Well, we do, but it is me. I wash the dishes by hand. I have to give Maria credit because not only does she almost always dry them, she does her share of washing as well.<\/p>\n<p>When we bought the house, we thought not having a dishwasher wouldn\u2019t be that big of a deal. We didn\u2019t throw dinner parties so we could get away with paper plates once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we often worked separate shifts and didn\u2019t eat that many meals together. When I worked nights, I did the dishes late in the afternoon before she got home, giving me a great opportunity to look productive.<\/p>\n<p>That changed when we started a family. The dishes did pile up a little more, but I managed. Since Bridget nursed, I didn\u2019t have bottles to mess with. Instead, we moved her to sippy cups as soon as we could. That looked like a great idea on the surface. They didn\u2019t have to be sterilized, just washed with the rest of the dishes.<\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t the easiest things to clean, but I survived. I had to learn the tricks of how to use the scrub brush to clean stuff from inside the lid. I discovered the art of using a toothpick to scrape dried milk from nooks and crannies. I handled it well for a few years, but it eventually got old.<\/p>\n<p>When I would do the dishes, the sippy cup got a special place in my organizational system. Part of me wanted to make sure I gave it special attention. Part of me wanted it right in front of my face so I could curse it for making a simple job so maddening.<\/p>\n<p>We had a pretty decent collection of the cups so I didn\u2019t have to rush to do the dishes each day to make sure Bridget had a sippy cup. But she didn\u2019t take long to develop an attachment to certain cups.<\/p>\n<p>That ratcheted up the pressure. I couldn\u2019t ignore the purple sippy cup anymore knowing that Maria would have to handle a fit when Bridget found out her favorite sippy cup was dirty.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, some days we needed one cup for white milk, one for chocolate milk and one for juice. They overtook my life.<\/p>\n<p>Several months ago, we started using a regular cup for Bridget at the table. Then we had the final breakthrough a few weeks ago: a plastic cup (no lid) in the living room at lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we have to have some rules, but she\u2019s pretty good about that. We have had no spills from what I know, which is good.<\/p>\n<p>I just got a lot of time and energy back from not having to wash sippy cups. I don\u2019t want to start having to scrub the carpet now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened a couple of weeks ago that made me dance and sing for joy. 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