Come with me, y'all. I've never done before. And I'm gonna show you how I fix meals for my 95-year-old dad who lives alone so he can have just pop them in the microwave every night.

Come with me, y'all. I've never done before. And I'm gonna show you how I fix meals for my 95-year-old dad who lives alone so he can have just pop them in the microwave every night. I'm Donna. I'm a 67-year-old. I'm navigating new widowhood and I'm a foster grandmother. Kids, yes it is my monkey, it is my circus. Caregiving for my parents who 95-year-old dad lives alone at home, 93-year-old mom with dementia in a personal care home. Please everything else, just you know, we all have stuff, don't we? Anyway, thanks for being here. I wouldn't get through any of this if it wasn't for my community here on TikTok. So let's get going. Morning y'all, happy Monday. I'm getting ready to go get my mother and take her to the doctor's appointment and then I'm gonna do something that I would not done before y'all. It's August and um, she has been in her little, um, personal care home since January and she hasn't been back home. So we didn't take her back home because we know that it would upset her or not. Because of course, you know, when we do take her out to, you know, to eat and all, on the way when we leave there, she'll say, well, aren't I going with your dad and aren't I going home? I mean, she knows that she's not home. But anyway, so the day I'm trying something new, I didn't even tell my dad because I know he'd be worried about it. He wouldn't sleep in any. But I'm gonna take her to get her infusion and then I'm gonna call my dad and I'm gonna go pick my dad up at his house. And then I'm gonna take him to lunch. Because, you know, it's an hour to get him there and then 45 minutes to bring her back to see her. And then 45 minutes back to my house. So it's about almost four hours on the road. Once you try to, you know, once you try to, you know, we try to keep them in food all we can. So I'm gonna get these fixed and labeled and I'm getting ready to head out. I've got all my meals labeled and dated so when I pull them out of the freezer, I know what they are and when I put them in there. I've got my lunch, I've got some fruit salad here that I made the other night. And I'm gonna put the lids on them and label them and I'm good to go. Got my little cooler here, got my five meals. Part one, stay tuned for part two and I'll let you know how it goes taking my mom by to pick up my dad.