May 8th, 2008 - My smart husband
Before we left for vacation, I made sure all the dishes were washed. So upon our return, it really hit me how few plates we have left from the set we got for our wedding. The problem is that although I thought stoneware plates were pretty and durable, they are not a good idea for clumsy people. Out of 8 place settings, we have only 3 small plates and 4 large plates left. I recently started using the saucers for breakfast, but two pieces of toast is too large to fit on them. At the winter holidays, we got down the pretty gold-plated winter set, which we never used to use because they “shouldn’t” be put in the dishwasher. We put them in the dishwasher rather than never use them. So we have enough large plates now.
Given the paucity of small plates, however, I approached Eric. “We only have 3 small plates left. Should we pick out a new set and buy them now–Maybe Mom and Dad would give them as our anniversary gift? Or should I go to St. Vincent’s and buy a number of mis-matched plates to get us through?”
I’m so proud of Eric. His response was, “How about we just use large plates?” (And he was polite to use “we” because I’m really the only one who uses the smaller plates on a regular basis.)
I was so focused on the lack of small plates that it didn’t occur to me to use larger plates in their place! Oh, and it just occurred to me that we might have some smaller plates with the winter set. I’ll have to check (and get the rest of the big ones down, too).