When we go on a vacation for a week or more, I do the grocery shopping and most of the cooking. After all, what kind of vacation would it be for Aloma to cook and shop on vacation just as she does all year?
When we’re in Florida for two months, she’ll get tired of my plain cooking, give me a shopping list, and cook a delicious casserole. She’s a great cook, and I can just do the basics. Since her surgery, I’ve been shopping, cooking, and taking care of her. For the first three weeks, I was so anxious and tired that I wasn’t sure I could handle my responsibilities. But now that she’s seven weeks out from her surgery and doing really well, she is doing more for herself. I still shop and cook and it’s getting routine for me. While Aloma would always shop once a week, I go at least three times, usually before 8:00 a.m.
I give her a choice of a few menu items. Last evening she asked what we were having tomorrow. I admitted I didn’t have anything planned. She said, ‘You could grill me a steak.” So I went to Harris Teeter and bought a 1 ¼ pound NY Strip steak and grilled it perfectly, serving it with baked potatoes, and a salad (I pride myself on my salads because I spent one summer as a Salad Girl in a resort in the Tetons--may be the subject for another blog.)
It was a perfect meal and she told me I’m still her hero.
Seasoned Man
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