The "New Normal"

So you are not confused, I will explain about the flower shops.  There is the main store which includes the gift and card floor, a flower cooler, design room, delivery service and greenhouse, and then a smaller satellite store (8 miles away from the main store to the west), which has a flower cooler, cards and gifts.  The store is small, 1000 square feet.  I work at both stores....Sunday and Monday at the main store and Thursday, Friday and Saturday (alone) at the branch store.   Now one day, while I was at the branch store, I met a woman and her daughter.  She had brought a dishgarden to have some fresh flowers added.  Unfortunately, I couldn't help her, because the store was in the process of being refitted (from a photo shop) and we did not have the cooler installed yet.  Hence we had no fresh flowers.  She told me that her mother's wake had been the previous day, and that she and her daughter were getting into the "new normal"...that meeting me was part of the process.  I am not waiting for my life to get back to normal, but I am trying to adjust to the "new normal."  I miss my daughter since she has moved to Florida.  My husband has a cough and is coming down with a cold.  Even when he feels well, he is not inclined to do much.  Consequently the work will fall on me.  My old dog is getting more arthritic and won't be around much longer.  I will have to consider putting him down.  Clothes are piling into huge mountains as the part for the washer won't be in until Tuesday or possibly Wednesday.  And the situation with my parents...my father's test is on Wednesday.  I am dealing with my circumstances as "it is what it is" and getting upset about it or ranting and raving will serve no useful purpose.  If my  mood gets too dire, my son will say, "Here Mom! Have some chocolate!"  You can tell the kind of day I've had by the amount of chocolate I eat.