Hello and happy Saturday! It’s been a quiet couple of weeks on the blogging front, and this last week has been our half-term holidays, and I have been spending less time on the computer and more time with family, including a lovely visit from my sister and her family 
So, I have not deserted you all! Now let’s sit down and sip a nice, frothy cappucino together (or tea, if you prefer 
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Actually, it’s nice to sit down and have a quiet day. I am tired, and I am still coughing (and have been for weeks now) I just can’t shake it. We’ve all had nasty viruses over the last month or so, and found that the cough lingers. My husband has it too, so we make quite a duet, coughing in stereo! I have found Covonia night-time medicine helps, as it has sedative in it which enables you to sleep without coughing yourself awake. The only problem is, you wake feeling like you have a hangover! Oh to feel 100% well again! I need my strength at the moment, as life with an 8 month old is never restful, and there’s always something else to do. The dishes always need washing, the carpets always need hoovering, dirty clothes multiply overnight in the washing basket, and trying to keep meal-times interesting and varied becomes a challenge. It reminds me of the words of Saint Frances of Rome:
“It is most laudable in a married woman to be devout,
but she must never forget that she is a housewife.
And sometimes she must leave God at the altar
to find Him in her housekeeping.”
How true! It is the essence of “Domestic Church”! God is not just to be found in quiet places of prayer, but in the midst of baby sick, spilt food, mounds of laundry and dirty dishes…Even our Holy Mother had to do all the tasks of the housewife, adn it is through Her that our work is sanctified. That is why I love this picture, which depicts Mary hanging out Her laundry! If She could, then I can, and with a heart full of love and joy!
I pray that God will bless you today, in whatever you’re doing around your home
Posted by Mary Nicewarner on November 1, 2009 at 1:11 am
Yes, we have had some nasty viruses around my house, also. I have to take a few days off from blogging, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time lately. I hope you feel better soon
Michaela is in bed so I popped on the computer for a few minutes; poor girl is sick again. May God bless you !
Posted by mum6kids on November 2, 2009 at 8:23 am
I love that little saying and the beautiful picture. I am trying to offer up housework, home education and any other bit of domestic church life- but frequently I forget. I just get into ‘mum-mode’ and before I know it the day is done and as I collapse into bed I realise I never offered up a thing,
I’ll print the picture and saying up-to remind me.
Thank you
Posted by mum6kids on November 2, 2009 at 8:26 am
btw-that virus might be swine flu. We have all had it. I still have the cough (had steroids and antibiotics but Still the cough remains). The reason we know it was H1N1 is my oldest has type 1 Diabetes and was due the jab. At the hospital they took blood (he wasn’t well) and told him it was too late. So I am guessing that was what we all had.
Just getting over D&V now. I could get to really hate winter!