Today when we went grocery shopping mom grabbed her own cart. Before today she followed me around and I ask her what sounds good, she would shrug and say “Oh I don’t know, Clane would always do this for me!”. But today she was picking things off the shelves and putting them in her cart. Mostly copying what I was doing, I would remind her about things she mentioned that she wanted like bagels and tea. While in the dairy isle I had grabbed 2 gallons of milk, she watched me and said “that’s too much for me” I pointed to the area where there were 1/2 gallon milk, and she walked right past them. I didn’t correct her and waited to see if she could figure it out, eventually she did. (Upon getting home we realized it was actually buttermilk). The checkout line is a source of anxiety for her, she doesn’t know how to use her debt card, and gets a little embarrassed when I help. Then I had to point her towards her groceries a couple times after getting flustered with the checker. But she was feeling pretty good when we got to the parking lot saying “it’s been so long since I did that!”

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