Leaving used plates and glasses on kitchen sinks used to be ‘unacceptable’ for me. I couldn’t stand seeing piles of dirty tablewares left for hours on end. But that’s only until I had two young kids and have learned to schedule the times I will spend dish washing. It is true that kids teach you a lot of things. One of them is prioritizing. It is not practical to spend time agonizing over chores that are left undone.