Motherly love makes the home

The family table radiates humble beauty

It was raining so hard the other night when we had friends over for dinner that I ended up making a small arrangement with flowers I had dried on a rack the week before! I just couldn’t go outside to pick anything!

I encourage you to make the extra effort to do things a little more nicely every day, even when things in general seem like a bit of a disaster!

For instance, setting the family table with care helps the children to learn the importance of order and everyday beauty.

Later in life, their memories of these humble family times will protect them from temptation to disorder or help them recover from confusion.

The housewife has this crucial role in these small matters that turn out to be instruments of peace. I wrote more about it here.

I hope you are making sandwich bread for your family this week and your starter is doing well for you! Practicing this skill will build up your bread-making muscles for the next step, which we will get to next week, probably.