The last week has been a lot. Stress and worry. Hospital and transportation of family having surgery. Happily all has gone well with the outcome. There has been lots of cooking. Big meals for them, plus the 3 of us. Enough for a leftover meal as well. My first meal was a hamburger soup as planned that used up all my vegetables that were looking forlorn. Added some beef and cheddar sliders and a big bowl of fresh mixed berries. I had a one day break as friends took a meal. Then I did a BBQ with roasted veg and a big salad. Then friends stepped up again. Today I'm doing cheesy meatloaf x 2 with garlic mashed, steamed broccoli carrots and peas. (Again enough for 6 people and leftovers for 3). There has been in fact ZERO help from the family on the other side. Not unexpected, but again disappointing.
dh is away for a couple more days. I did a little "me" shopping yesterday. I have given myself a rule that nothing new unless I've run out, or have worn it out. So a couple toiletries and a pair of capri pants on for 40% off. (I outgrew the other ones and I refuse to wear "pinchy pants" anymore.) Overall I've reduced my wardrobe by at least 1/3. I don't need my "business casual" clothes anymore. Or at least not all of them. Somebody my size (and a size smaller than me - haha) will find a lot at the goodwill. I also went through all of the closets - dh has lost 65 lbs and so many things are too big and many things also fit again. So I'm only keeping what fits. Kid 3 is quite particular now so I don't buy him anything unless he's there. There was a big purge of his stuff with me gaining a couple hoodies and t-shirts. That's my style now :) comfy. We gain a lot of sports team gear every year with kid 3. Not directly purchased but it came with the team fees. The last couple of years we haven't had to pay anything, so that has been great, but we still get a bunch of apparel. Some of his friends have played on 3-4 teams per year (getting traded) I can't imagine all of the stuff! I'm lucky he's in the same place so far.
Last week dh helped me do a pantry refresh. I have a large corner pantry and it gets messed up easily it seems. I do compare myself to the Swedish chef when I'm in the kitchen. I excuse some of it because I don't have the hand strength anymore so after a lot of chopping/dicing I drop stuff, and I also cant reach up with my right arm above my head. So things get put/shoved where I can easily reach. And I'm easily distracted, so I forget what I was just doing! BUT for the last week I've been very good about putting everything back in its place! Maybe it's a new leaf??
Well I'm procrastinating. I need to water all of my planters and the lawn, then a trip to the pharmacy and the library, then start the meal.
So glad that I'm not rushing home from work to do all of this!!
2 comments:
So lovely that you have the time and bandwidth to help with additional meals. Fingers crossed the surgeries & recoveries all go well!
You are a gem and I too have family that would never think to help. All on hub's side.
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