Shana Tova y'all. I have done nothing at all for Rosh Hashanah this year other than buying some apples.

With Ethan at TIFF and Dylan back at college, I am realizing how ill-equipped I am to being my own housekeeper. There are so many dishes in the sink and nobody else is going to do them! And this happens EVERY DAY??? What gives? All I did was prepare a bunch of food, how was I supposed to predict there would be consequences.

(Yes, Aeryn is almost 16 and could be helping out a lot more than they are. But only one of my children was born with the natural instinct to see a household task and get it done, and he's 200 miles away in Boston. The one still living at home takes after me and their natural instincts are to ignore household tasks if AO3 is around.)

I am not a natural Housekeeper at all. When i worked full time i had someone to clean once a week, the kids had chores, and DH has always done his share. Foolishly i thought i could manage it when i retired, and yet. The dishes, man. If i didn’t like to cook it might be better. And the robot vacuum only works if I get things out of its way. Also, why for does my phone not capitalize my I? Sheesh!