update: last night Mom went back to the condo and grabbed a car load of stuff including a bag of garbage. not a garbage bag but a bag of garbage. I noticed the jar of dukes mayo that had been sitting in her car all night, sealed thank God. this is getting irritating.
Mmmmmmmmph. I know there has to be come level of control worries going on here. She's trying to make sure she's in control of her new environment, mixed with the worry of having forgotten something.
Good that you're keeping on top of this now, though. It sucks but, do keep on top of it, as she settles, and as she spends time in her new home and acclimates, this'll die down.
oh, she's already making friends a lot. she was sitting at the lunch table with three people. just chatting it up when we came over to drop off her winter wardrobe but she forgot in the closet behind the door
also an old lady may have patted my ass as I was walking by. she came over to apologize 5 minutes later but I waved it off. she said 'it was right there, almost at eye level it was' I had forgotten what a chaos magnet I can be sometimes