gone bananas

I get bananas almost every week at the grocery store. (Granted, I'm cursing the genius-supermarket-marketers that have made getting your produce first 'the standard in grocery shopping experiences'. Why, because we like squashed grapes, we like trying to make room in the seat somewhere between a toddler's butt and the side of the cart for our delicate, over-priced fruits? Call me crazy, but maybe picking out produce should be last, right before the check out lane? Am I crazy? Yeah, don't answer that.)

Back to bananas.

I'm standing in front of the freezer, door open, making a mental note of the things that we have in there. I push over the frozen peas, look beyond the frozen pineapple, check off frozen waffles and pancakes (yes, we like our frozen foods), knock over the four empty ice cube trays and throw back into the back of the freezer the frozen deer meat (We have deer in our freezer, there I said it; animal lovers come strike me dead, but as some consolation, it is nearly six months old and we haven't touched it. What can I say, we just aren't one of those couples that come home and say 'Hello Dear, how about some deer for dinner?', so there the deer sits and oh yes, it was a gift.), so just right to the deer meat is this black mass that I guess I have been avoiding.

The frozen bananas.

I have 10 frozen bananas or should say had 16 frozen banana but 6 of them were at the point of being freezer dried and deemed trash can worthy.


Are these 16 frozen bananas a metaphor for the type of mother that I am? Are these an example of my good intentions on getting things done, but just not making it 'past the peeling'? Think of all the metaphorical 'baby food, banana bread, banana muffins and smoothies' that my children have missed out on because I'm just too lazy.

Make me feel better, go count your bananas.

PS- I'm running with the assumption that other people put bananas in their freezers too. This isn't just a 'me' thing, is it?

PSS- I realize that in my hoping that other people may have more than 16 frozen bananas in their freezer, I'm setting myself up for further disappointment.