Widows & Widowers Support Group
This community is dedicated to those who have lost a husband, wife, or partner. Anything is open for discussion here, with the hope that we can focus on grief, bereavement, life after loss, and continuing on after a great loss.
In spite of my best efforts and intentions, cooking is a rarety in my kitchen these days. Again, they don't design tables for one. I planned to make something in the crockpot today; so after several texts, emails, and phone calls spelling and spilling out drama, I looked at the recipe. How did I know?!? I am one ingredient short of what is needed. By the time I go back out in the pouring rain to get it, and then get back home, I no longer have the motivation - and it's late.
We have this new law in town where we have to take our own bags to the store, or purchase them within. I still forget to take mine in, most of the time. So anyway, I pay for my 6 items and head for the car. I realize I am pushing an empty cart, so I make an extra trip back into the store to retrieve my goodies. I guess this is all part of our new identity, so I didn't even bother to apologize. ("I'm a widow. I'm grieving. Leave me alone because I am alone. No one cares, and nobody loves me. Etc., etc.")
cooking at my house now is just once a weekend I oven roast a lasagna size pan of some kind of vegetable. I eat it all week long for supper with cold chicken salad and for breakfast and lunch it's a banana each meal.
I give you credit for even thinking about the crockpot and then to go back out in the rain. triple hugs