A Happy Thing

I never really knew what I was missing. This was a problem I dealt with on a daily basis. It required regular attention and all the members of the family faced the difficulty of it. I was regularly frustrated with what I now realize is a rather large part of our life. But you learn to deal with the challenges in your life and tend to forget it could be any different. But, oh my friends, it can be so very different. We have discovered the joy, the freedom, the spacious beauty of...a great big fridge!




This was our old fridge (sorry I'm too brain dead to figure out how to rotate the picture. I'm so brain dead I have a hard time making change at the shop. So turn your head. There. That's what it looked like).


And freezer.


And now, this is our beautiful, more than twice the size, fridge/freezer. I put exactly the same things into the new fridge, even the old cream, rotting veggies and extraneous bits of bread, just so I could see how much more space we have now. It hasn't been properly organized in the 3 weeks we've owned it, and it's already had beet juice spilled in it and food smeared on the handle, but it makes life easier. You know those puzzles where it's like a square with one piece missing and you have to move around the other pieces in a specific way to make it work? Yeah, it's not like that anymore . And, we can throw a watermelon, or turkey in there with no problem, which is nice as we approach the holidays. Maybe it doesn't seem like a big deal to you, but it makes me happy. So, happy early Christmas to me and my sweet husband who let me pick the fridge I wanted (instead of the one that came with a free tv) and appreciates it as much as me because he does (almost) as much work as me around here ;)