Great Story,

I understood you wanted to show the 'routine' life. But, don't you think you repeated little bit too much? Only thing that's different in your three paragraph is your husband's friend's wife's name! Use different words! 
You copied the first of these three paragraphs, pasted it, added 'One Saturday evening..' at the beginning and changed "your husband's friend's wife's name? to Pratima::::: and made the third paragraph....

I was brandishing the oil lamp around the pictures and idols of gods and goddesses with my right hand, ringing the prayer bell with my left, murmuring some Sanskrit mantras whose meaning I never knew, all the while thinking about the household chores, the office gossips, my son's school, my husband's weird friends, and the nice silk saree Ramila; my husband's friend's wife, wore at a party the other day.

Days rolled by and I was still thinking about the household chores, the office gossips, my son's school, my husband's weird friends, and the nice silk saree Shilpa; my husband's friend's wife, wore at a party the other day, while brandishing the same oil lamp around the gods and goddesses in the altar room with my right hand, ringing the prayer bell with my left, and murmuring the Sanskrit mantras whose meaning I never knew. 

One Saturday evening I was brandishing the oil lamp around the pictures and idols of gods and goddesses with my right hand, ringing the prayer bell with my left, murmuring the Sanskrit mantras whose meaning I never knew, all the while thinking about the household chores, the office gossips, my son's school, my husband's weird friends, and the nice silk saree Pratima; my husband's friend's wife, wore at a party the other day.  

My two cents!