You laugh and cry
It’s funny how everything is almost overwhelming when you are in the middle of it and you know you just need to stay focussed and deal with each crisis as it comes up and somehow you will make it. Then every now and again you have to stop and take a different view.
I arrived back to Mums after going out for groceries and it was the first day she was due to get meals on wheels. Mum told me she hadn’t eaten and was hungry and I checked around but no evidence of the delivery. After waiting an hour and nothing turned up I called to find out what had happened. The whole point of my staying on was to make sure everything we had arranged was working as planned. They assured me the meal had been delivered. I checked again, for probably the twentieth time, fridge freezer and rubbish bins. Nothing and by now mum was telling me she was really hungry. I made her a late lunch, although I had already made her breakfast and a late breakfast before I had left. I called again to tell them that nothing had come and they assured me they had met Carole and she had told them to put the meal on the bench. I then did a deep dive into the rubbish bin. Squirrelled away under another layer of rubbish was the empty packaging of a full meal with dessert. So she had scoffed the lot, promptly forgot and wanted more. After eating like a bird for the previous week suddenly she has the appetite of a an emu not a sparrow. I called my sister and as I was telling her I just started laughing 😂 and in a heartbeat everything went from serious to hilarious.
I told mum what she had done when I could finally get it out without giggling and she straight faced told me she had not eaten a thing and by the way was there any chocolate. Needless to say her appetite has improved and with it her energy and outlook.
I have headed back to Rotorua to the cold and rain and will be back in Chch early July.
The Traveling Kiwi 