Keeping the Home Fires Burning when Mom is Sick
By Kathryn H. Kidd

Sometimes good ideas come from separate places at the same time. Here we have one of those instances:Sue from New Jersey writes:

I would like to know how mothers with bad backs manage to keep the house clean and the children fed.  This has been a problem that has plagued me for 20 years, but no younger mother I've ever seen at church seems to have this as a chronic problem.

Just as I was getting ready to run Sue's letter and open the discussion among you, Meridian ran an article about a mother who copes with depression.

If there are two mothers out there who are suffering from one chronic malady or another and don't know how others like you are getting through the day, there are probably a ton of you in similar situations. Some of you have fibromyalgia; some have multiple sclerosis; some are confined to bed during complicated pregnancies; some even have cancer.

Ladies — how do you keep your family's life organized and happy if you're unable to do everything that other mothers can do? What help do you receive? What things are falling through the cracks? What blessings (if any) do you see in all of this?

Readers — we need your solutions.  If you have conquered this problem, please tell Sue how you did it. Send your email to circleofsisters@meridianmagazine.com . Put something in the subject line that will let me know your letter isn't spam.  And when you write, b e sure to include your full name, city and state or province. (If you'd rather be semi-anonymous, sign your name as “A Reader from Michigan” or “Sandy from Timbuktu.” The important thing is that we hear from you.)

Until next week — Kathy

" A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings,
and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

Hippocrates
Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)