Mailbag: Go clean up the kitchen! AND the bathroom!!

Ann,

I agree with everything you wrote, but there is something I’d like to add. It’s in regards to “happiness” which has been touted as THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.

I once heard a gentleman say that you will not always derive happiness from your family, but you SHOULD derive fulfillment and satisfaction. I really couldn’t agree more. Unless you are in a perpetual state of mortal sin, it really is a cause-and-effect when following your vocation.

I am the mother of nine children (recently found out #10 due next year). We have seven sons, so counting my husband, there are eight males in the house. I’m sure you can only imagine the amount of cooking I do, and not to be crude, but the continuous state of our bathrooms. Both are a source of sanctity for me. Am I “happy“ to always be doing those things? No. To be completely honest, I’ve never really enjoyed cooking (although I have gotten quite good at it) and dirty bathrooms gross me out. God definitely has a sense of humor.