Bachelor Living

Michele and the girls are out shopping, so I'm home alone with Dee Dee. That doesn't happen much. But it struck me that she doesn't let me help her like she lets Michele help her.

Dee Dee wanders into the kitchen. "Dee Dee, can I get you a snack?" "No, I'm full. Thanks!" "Can I get you some iced tea or a soda?" "No, I'm good."

Then she goes to the fridge, gets an iced tea, and adds it to the group of her three drinks already at the kitchen table.

I'm trying to figure out what it is she wants, but it's a little awkward. Maybe not unlike living with anyone you don't know all that well. I make a point to "happen to wander through" whatever room she's in every few minutes. Just now I found her stacking up children's books. Maybe she's cleaning up?

She seems like she's unable to do much, but of course if she were to start cleaning up, I suppose that would be good for her. As long as she doesn't feel like she needs to clean up. I have a hunch that once I told her Michele was out running errands, she got an age-old, uncontrollable urge to help out. For example, once she was in the kitchen, she picked up an empty laundry basket and put it in her walker as if she was going to go downstairs and empty the dryer!

I put in "Love in the Afternoon", the classic Audrey Hepburn / Gary Cooper movie for her, and I think she'll settle in and watch that. After all, doing all that laundry is bound to make her tired.