A difficult day with a surprise ending...

Boy oh boy, bad nights sleep!

This morning (when I did wake up) I was so distracted 

(tired, clutter, steps to make tea/toast/boiled egg/butter for toast)

that I had to get rid of my first pot of tea

which was somehow only luke warm.

Hot tea was made sucessfully the second time!

Lunch helped some, a few hours later...

Chicken soup again... plus toast and hot decaf lady grey tea... that was good...

Made it to Confession, Vespers.

Before that, lots of cleaning, dishes, water spills, a hot shower...

My Sweet Husband treated me to a meal at our 

favourite diner... no meal prep, no dishes! 

And the evening was more peaceful; oh boy was I praying earlier

just to keep it together... (i.e. not become a cranky especially!)

The 2 week cold, the unbloggable...

and I saw a lovely man at vespers 

(when I was on bed-rest last summer he and his wife mailed us a box of lovely fruit)

and that was the unexpected surprising 

ending towards the end of the day...

as my day was slowly turning around,

I was so sorry to hear that his wife, they just found out, has cancer; a total shock.

So we are praying for him, for her, got an Akathist to the Mother of God Healer of 

Cancer + one to St Luke the Surgeon for him ready to give him tomorrow DV.

This always tips the scales for me - in the right way - remembering the 

fragility of life, turning towards love and care for another person.

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My Husband is so valiant, he keeps working towards better solutions for

our unbloggable situation and even though it's hard

and being sick has made everything seem harder,

I must say that I am proud of him in the midst of our 

personal hard.

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And so today that was hard for me has a peaceful

more thoughtful end of the day...