Bread and cookies

11/15/2014

We had the new freezer delivered today. First thing this morning my husband and I had gone in the basement to make room for the new freezer. There is a 4 shelf bookcase holding all the laundry detergents and gallons of Clorox bleach. I also find 32 cents, a bird feeder (fully filled), a grocery bread tray full of empty jelly jars, plastic measuring cups, extra laundry detergent tops, a stack of take out containers and dryer sheets. That was not so bad but then we had an ancient medal cabinet with 4 shelves and no bottom in it. That is filled to the brim with glasses, coffee mugs, flower vases and another stack of take out containers.  We empty all this and put everything in boxes and on top of a card table so we can just put everything back once the freezer has been delivered and set.
I tripped on something and scraped two toes really badly on the concrete floor. I'm bleeding and thinking to myself, "this has been an awful 6 months." James says, "go upstairs and put ice on your foot, I will finish up here." Around 30 minutes later he decides that the freezer is not going to fit down the basement stairs and we are going to put it on the enclosed front porch on the first floor. So, I have hurt myself, broken glasses, moved shelf after shelf of empty take out containers and now we are not going to put the freezer in the basement.
I have told Mother that she can have a shelf in the new freezer for her cookies and bread. My parents go through 1/2 loaf of bread in one day. JW never ate breakfast until he developed Alzheimer's. Every morning Mother fixes him 2 slices of bread with butter and strawberry jam, 1 container of whipped Yoplait strawberry yogurt and a cup of coffee. I have tried to make his breakfast but apparently I cut the toast in too thin of a strip. Also, they eat sandwiches for lunch and if Mother wants a snack a piece of toast does the trick.
Mother and JW grew up in the foot hills of the Appalachian mountains in West Virginia. In the south they sell a Little Debbie raisin and cream cookies. We live in New York and the majority of grocery stores have no idea what these are. Just by chance a new store opened in our area and they originated down south. I found the cookies that Mother likes and when I go grocery shopping I try to pick up 3 or 4 boxes of these cookies for her. With her small refrigerator the cookies and loafs of bread take up the majority of space hence she deserves a shelf in the new freezer.
If I can lighten the load even a little I will feel like I am helping her care for Dad.