Modern Conveniences, How I Love Them

My dishwasher broke on Saturday.

When we came in from shoveling, I opened the door and pulled out the top rack to begin the unloading process…and two little pieces of plastic snapped and the rack dropped. Thankfully, I had a pretty good hold on it, so it wasn’t a smashing, clattering catastrophe and I was able to grab all the mugs, bowls, and glasses and put them away.

But still.

Back before kids, it was a good week if we ran the dishwasher more than once. Between there just being two of us and the fact that, generally, we only ate dinner at home, it simply didn’t fill up all that quickly. Now? With four of us (three of whom are home for three meals a day most days)? That puppy gets filled up in a day and a half.

It’s things like this that make me glad for a handy hubby. He got online, found the parts that he thinks we’ll need, and ordered them. They should come today. Which means that hopefully I can go back to running it a little less frequently (and, bonus, stop doing quite as many dishes by hand. Cause after growing up without a dishwasher and then getting one? Hand washing isn’t really on my list of things I love.)

What modern convenience would you not want to go without?