Spookalicious (because he is delicious and nutritous)
Splendiferous Spook
Fuzzy headed boy
Mr Affectionate
Love Bug (that's my favourite name for him)
Handsome
My favourite cat.
"Kat"
My great love
You big Lug
Big Beluga
..and what does he call me?
"human" (or if he is feeling affectionate; 'my human')
or "woman" (no, not really).
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Something beautiful, something good...
How to describe my life? Life is very busy. My main focus is my Mum: trying to support her in a very difficult time of her life. She turns 80 on February the 17th and sadly she now lives in a nursing home. I have been caring for her for 4 years now and it has been quite the journey. It's been a very eye opening experience and taught me things about myself and life that I would rather not know! But that's not quite true, I did want to know.
I work full time and I see her everyday and bring meals to her as she hates nursing home food. She loves real food and has always hated things like custard, rice pudding, pasta, meat loaf, savoury mince and all those other things that people of her generation typically like, (and the nursing home serves up). She loves curry. She loves spicey food. I think it is because she has killed off all her tastebuds from cigarette smoking. So, I am kept very busy with Mum.
My new hobby is learning the piano and at the moment I am incredibly busy trying to learn at least 2 songs a week for Cradle Roll Sabbath school class at my church. Even though I can barely play the piano and at the moment I am self taught (but starting lessons in Feb.), -I found myself volunteering to play for sabbath school. I have 24 songs to learn before April. So far I have learned 9. Without God, it would be impossible as it is a bit beyond my abilities at the moment. With Him, (he assures me), it will be Ok.
So my focus is basically Mum, work, piano. When possible I read, walk, garden, cook, sing, listen to ABC radio, love my kat, love my friends and family and watch a good DVD.
Praise God, that I love my life.
There is a little song that goes: "something beautiful, something good,
all my confusion, He understood.
All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife,
but He made something beautiful of my life"
And He did.
I work full time and I see her everyday and bring meals to her as she hates nursing home food. She loves real food and has always hated things like custard, rice pudding, pasta, meat loaf, savoury mince and all those other things that people of her generation typically like, (and the nursing home serves up). She loves curry. She loves spicey food. I think it is because she has killed off all her tastebuds from cigarette smoking. So, I am kept very busy with Mum.
My new hobby is learning the piano and at the moment I am incredibly busy trying to learn at least 2 songs a week for Cradle Roll Sabbath school class at my church. Even though I can barely play the piano and at the moment I am self taught (but starting lessons in Feb.), -I found myself volunteering to play for sabbath school. I have 24 songs to learn before April. So far I have learned 9. Without God, it would be impossible as it is a bit beyond my abilities at the moment. With Him, (he assures me), it will be Ok.
So my focus is basically Mum, work, piano. When possible I read, walk, garden, cook, sing, listen to ABC radio, love my kat, love my friends and family and watch a good DVD.
Praise God, that I love my life.
There is a little song that goes: "something beautiful, something good,
all my confusion, He understood.
All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife,
but He made something beautiful of my life"
And He did.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Life with Annie...
Well, here I am in Sunny Mildura. It's Sunday, it's hot and sunny and I have just been persuaded by a friend that I might need to blog! I can't believe it...just a month ago I have just managed to extricate myself from the beguiling clutches of facebook, that great time waster...and now I am starting a blog. Whats wrong with me that I would even choose to do this? I am really over the whole social network/internet thing. Nevertheless, here I am...blogging.
I think it was really that I feel inspired by the blogs of others and I do like to write. I am sure that I don't have anything facinating to say and the older I get, the more sure of that fact I am.
But, here I am.
I have decided that if I am to blog, then I want to do it with honesty, (just what you want on the world wide web!). What I love is talking to women who are not afraid to tell it how it really is. In this world there is too much facade in our lives and I am very inspired by those women who are not afraid to be vulnerable and depict the truth of their lives.
So I am hoping that I can follow these women's example and be honest and real and unafraid. I do believe that by being real about our lives, it gives others permission to be real also. We don't have to be perfect. In recent years I have decided that I am perfectly imperfect, and that is just fine with me. In fact, you could almost say, it's perfect with me!
I think it was really that I feel inspired by the blogs of others and I do like to write. I am sure that I don't have anything facinating to say and the older I get, the more sure of that fact I am.
But, here I am.
I have decided that if I am to blog, then I want to do it with honesty, (just what you want on the world wide web!). What I love is talking to women who are not afraid to tell it how it really is. In this world there is too much facade in our lives and I am very inspired by those women who are not afraid to be vulnerable and depict the truth of their lives.
So I am hoping that I can follow these women's example and be honest and real and unafraid. I do believe that by being real about our lives, it gives others permission to be real also. We don't have to be perfect. In recent years I have decided that I am perfectly imperfect, and that is just fine with me. In fact, you could almost say, it's perfect with me!
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