I think Lydia is seeing a whole new world. On Thursday, I had to attend a Junior League meeting, and Lydia decided to stay home. I reminded her that we were heading to the lake on Friday and would leave straight from school, so she would need to pack that night. I also asked her if she needed to wash any clothes, and she said, “Yes, I have dirty clothes.” We took her clothes out to the washing machine in the garage. I showed her how to put all of the clothes into the machine, set the machine to wash, add the detergent and then push start. We followed these steps and started the machine. She said, “What do we do now?” I said, “We walk away and find something else to do.” She looked at me like I had grown a 2nd head. “But what about the water?” she asked. I replied, “the water goes in through a hose in the back.” “But how does it work?” she asked with wide eyes. In my unoriginal thought process, I said, “I don’t know- it just does.” “So we do not do anything else with it?” she asked. “No, we walk away from it and then come back out when it is done.” She gave me one last look of slight incredulity, and then said, “I am going to return home a lazy Ugandan woman!”
I have also showed her the microwave and the dishwasher. I think she is a little in awe of the conveniences, and I feel lazy showing them to her. In theory, these conveniences should allow for me to live a fuller life and have time to do great things. But I don’t. Maybe I should change that…
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