Marie was hungry. Mary had been away for a while and with her somewhat childlike mind, she got impatient a lot more easily than normal.
Finally she decided to cook some food. It wasn't hard to heat up a bowl of soup and microwave some food, right? She didn't have to be fancy.
There was one problem, though. She couldn't reach the stove or the microwave! Or even the freezer.
Marie dragged a chair over to the refrigerator. She really wasn't strong at all. She stood it and tried to open the freezer to get out some old food, and tripped and fell. She hit the floor without the protection of any clothes--all she had on was a towel wrapped around her--and couldn't help yelling out loud, "Owwwww!!!!!" just like a normal child would.
Marie got up again. A bruise was beginning to form on her arm, but she seemed all right otherwise. Standing up on the chair a second time, she tugged on the freezer, but nothing happened. Then she realized that because she wasn't strong, she'd have to pull much harder than normal. Giving it a good tug, she finally got it to fly open, and food fell all over the place, including a half-open bag of peas that rolled all over the floor. She got out a plate of cooked food frozen a week ago, and then had to fix the damage. Which meant collecting all the lost peas.
It was such a chore! But finally she got as much as she could and closed the freezer. The next step was to get a can of soup and heat it... no, what if she fell and burned herself somehow? She decided not to. Marie pulled the chair over to the microwave and punched in two minutes.
Two minutes later, she had her food. Getting cups was almost as hard as opening the freezer, but finally she remembered there were some paper cups in a low drawer, and she could use those. She poured herself a Coke and sat down to eat.
Marie looked at the plate of food. It was an adult's meal, frozen for later use... which meant it was far, far, too much for her. She couldn't possibly eat it all! But her new Mommy wouldn't want her to waste food, right?