Thursday, Jan. 26

Slept late, until around 8:30. After breakfast, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, where she diced carrots, onions, and celery, to be stewed with chicken. Once the chicken was simmering, I did strengthening exercises...stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights.

It was noon before I was showered and ready for the day. After lunch, we continued in the kitchen. Mother diced more onions, carrots and celery for a recipe of potato soup. Hubbie peeled and sliced the potatoes, and I put the soup together.

Then Mother sliced onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms for a steak and peppers supper. She also diced bell peppers and mushrooms for an omelet supper tomorrow night. After that, she was ready to sit and relax. She's complained that she hasn't been productive enough, and feels useless, but I think she was satisfied she'd done plenty today!

When the chicken was done, we wrapped it in plastic wrap, and found gallon jars to put the broth and potato soup in for the fridge.

Around 4 p.m., I put potatoes in the oven to bake (Hubbie had washed them earlier). Later, I braised leftover sirloin steak from the restaurant in beef broth (Mother had sliced the beef earlier), along with bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms.

The beef and potatoes, with a side of leftover Lima beans and butter beans, and hot buttered French bread, made a good supper.

Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house afterward, and then I turned the TV off for an hour, while Hubbie and I made a big batch of chai tea.

We resumed watching TV afterward, including a 2004 movie from the Encore Suspense channel, "The I Inside." A young man awakens from an accident with amnesia. He thinks it's the year 2000, but it's really 2002. He begins jumping back and forth between the years, uncovering more and more of the mystery of his brother's death. His wife, whom he doesn't remember, tells him he killed his brother. He also has a girlfriend that he discovers was his brother's fiance'. Alternate reality movies aren't my favorite.