tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33671642024-03-07T11:15:27.151-08:00and so it goes...Life, mommyhood, and lots of popcornAnnecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.comBlogger428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-22907952581571690112016-08-15T16:23:00.001-07:002016-08-15T16:23:21.689-07:00God's only got one side. His. Lately I've been observing two warring factions on the internet. From my dispassionate standpoint, there's elements of truth and error to each group.
What's interesting to me as a study in human character is the lengths to which some are willing to go to vilify the other group, while claiming the righteousness of God and truth is on their side.
People who never name the name of Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-56076980215268629902016-04-23T13:57:00.001-07:002016-04-23T13:57:20.586-07:00on cat trainingAfter a rousing performance last night, S came home drowsy and ready for a cup of chamomile tea. We were all in bed and lights out by 10:30. Party animals we are not!
Calico Cat obliged us and allowed us to sleep in by not yowing outside my door for her breakfast. Acutally, I think I may have trained her in this. When she first came to live with us, she was silent for a Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-13266845674126221052016-04-22T21:35:00.001-07:002016-04-22T21:35:43.523-07:00breaking the silenceThe house is quiet tonight. A harbinger of greater silence to come.
My son, 18, is finishing up his freshman year of college on the other side of the United States.My daughter, 17, is finishing up her junior year at a small Christian school, and preparing to enter Running Start for her Senior year to finish high school but receive college credit for it.
Tonight, she's Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-92077046234808488872012-06-16T20:48:00.004-07:002012-06-16T20:48:47.648-07:00a year and a day...that's how long it's been since I've journaled here. My two wee bairns are 13 and almost-15... AND they are visiting grandma in California for a couple of weeks!
Can you say "party" ?
But it is very, very quiet around here, especially because it is Saturday, and A. is busy getting ready for Sunday morning services.
The kitchen is staying clean. So is the bathroom. Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-52008229883050932812011-06-15T09:25:00.000-07:002011-06-15T09:28:11.521-07:00Follow MePreface: I have a virtual friend (meaning, I only know her online, not in real life) who's facilitating an online Bible study based on the Good Morning Girls groups. Every work week there is a new 5-day Bible study that follows the acronym SOAP: Scripture, Observations, Applications, Prayer.
I like it because it's a quick way to build the disciplines of grace into your life (The WordAnnecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-70119927610581055452011-04-19T11:37:00.000-07:002011-04-19T11:37:10.186-07:00To Live is ChristFrom Sovereign Grace's new album Risen, this song was a great blessing to me this morning. As an interesting twist, I was listening to it while working out at Bally's gym, and was really struggling to maintain my composure. The Other Sweaty People in the gym probably thought I was working out really hard and had pulled something. :)
Before You gave us life and breath
You Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-7797377930808057192011-03-31T10:17:00.000-07:002011-03-31T10:17:08.707-07:00Held and Holding Firmly"Listen: If you’ve got a Christian faith whereby you’re hanging on by your fingernails to God – just making it—then I don’t know that you have understood saving faith. If you are hanging on to God as a result of how well you’ve done this past week, or how many times you’ve read your Bible, or how many times you’ve witnessed, or how many times you didn’t think the bad thought (or whatever Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-48049176440464135892011-01-20T20:34:00.000-08:002011-01-20T21:24:04.214-08:00"life", mommyhood, popcorn...Gentle reader, please advise:How does one blog about Life, specifically Mommyhood, when one's children have reached An Age of Self-Awareness that mom occasionally--nay, mainly-- Blogs About Them? To avoid causing or giving offense, I find myself mentally editing my childrearing mileposts to the point that they just never leave my fingertips and make it into record.D and S continually surprise Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-53780793109162787692010-11-20T10:16:00.000-08:002010-11-20T10:19:04.690-08:00trainspottingYesterday morning on the way to school, Number One Son and I were delayed by a rather long freight train carrying a load of coal eastbound across the nation.D: "Oh, look! It's the Polar Express!"Gonna be a lot of sad boys-n-girls.....Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-82567600136912413472010-11-11T10:49:00.000-08:002010-11-11T11:06:01.993-08:00literary lovin'I've been rather MIA lately. I can talk about trivialities and meaningless stuff with great loquacity, but to dig deeply and bare my soul --whether in person or on the intertubes--puts a choke chain around my throat and glues my tongue to the roof of my mouth.A dear former student and friend of mine posted this meme on FB earlier today, then tagged me. Since it has just the right dosages of Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-30886971313244638402010-06-07T11:04:00.000-07:002010-06-07T11:16:47.873-07:00conspiracy afootI found a checklist in the laundry room (which, in fact, is just one tiny side of the garage, but it sounds more impressive to say Laundry Room like I actually have an entire room designated for cleaning clothes) -I'm posting it here so I can let the FBI know that I'm keeping tabs on this hotbed of rebellion. Motherhood isn't for sissies. Here's the list:___ Machine Gun___ C-4___ Grenades___ Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-86523804336433450162010-06-04T11:35:00.000-07:002010-06-04T11:59:40.644-07:00crazy, mixed-up kidIn others, I admire a well-turned phrase, a piquant wit, and ghastly puns. I'm pretty good with words myself, though a master by no stretch.But so far I haven't been able to find the words to write this post. And I need to.My dad died on May 18, 2010. There. I typed it. It was peaceful and quick, and I was not there. I was here in WA teaching piano lessons at the time when the phone Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-25104710974462715602010-05-11T09:57:00.001-07:002010-05-11T10:19:02.987-07:00Are Christians Meant to Feel Guilty All the Time?Are Christians Meant to Feel Guilty All the Time?Posted using ShareThisThanks to Lisa for mentioning this on FB. This is where my heart and mind have been lately. If I'm in a funk about things, usually it's because I'm dwelling on my sin rather than my gracious Savior. Timely and helpful.Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-61028970751093766192010-04-22T20:06:00.001-07:002010-04-22T20:06:47.078-07:00Because I haven't posted in a long time :)This sums up 3/4 of our family quite nicely, thank you!see more Lolcats and funny picturesAnnecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-73367064731246730002010-03-20T22:25:00.000-07:002010-03-20T22:29:43.659-07:00the forgetfulness of GodI, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.Isaiah 43:25And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.For I will forgive their iniquity, andI will remember their sin no more."Jeremiah 31:34In those days andAnnecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-49952614992103229942010-03-20T21:08:00.001-07:002010-03-20T21:29:43.788-07:00spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.....To borrow a line from Tom Lehrer, all the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon. (No, I did not go "poisoning pigeons in the park," but I've been humming that song all day.)Actually had a SATURDAY today, one that counted as such - it didn't involve HAVING to run here, go there, play this, drop off that. I slept in, spent some quality time with my husband, had several cups of coffee, made Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-45232560679974208132010-01-21T06:51:00.001-08:002010-01-21T07:11:32.458-08:00miasma"It's up to the government to resolve this kind of problem, they must take responsibility and tell us what to do." - Gelin Wesnel, native Haitian.Culture shock.Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-63205944874113317112010-01-20T11:34:00.001-08:002010-01-20T11:52:42.457-08:00it never rains in sunny...western washington?It's a rare event, but it does happen. California is getting hammered with wet weather, while we Pac NW-ers enjoy sun and 50º weather. I even went jogging on Monday to 1) get rid of Christmas indulgences and 2) get my heart back in shape.Okay, I didn't jog non-stop. More like: walk, walk, walk, walk, jog for about half a block; recover for 5 minutes to get my breath back; jog for half a Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-5026547109749958312010-01-12T15:11:00.000-08:002010-01-12T15:38:14.801-08:00raindrops keep falling in my coffeeBlattery rainy weather lately. I keep thinking about the character in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish where Rob the lorry driver has kept a personal journal demonstrating that it NEVER stops raining. Never. In the book, of course, the omniscient narrator informs us this is because Rob McKenna is, in fact, a rain god, so the clouds just follow him everywhere to cherish him, be with him, and Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-92170273539111023292010-01-09T20:56:00.000-08:002010-01-09T21:34:19.620-08:00the non-resolution postWell, well, where'd the time go?! Happy Twenty-Ten!In reading up on some other blogs I follow, the common theme seems to be "boy, I wish I had something awesome/creative/inspiring to share, but I've been too busy/boring/uninspiring over the Christmas/Advent/Hanukkah/Kwanza season that I haven't posted anything..."So rather than add my own variation on the same theme above, I will be just as Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-49079943949887905102009-12-03T10:43:00.001-08:002009-12-03T10:44:50.231-08:00...just sayin'props to Zintradi for making this his FB profile piccy...... :)Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-82347476682949258842009-11-06T19:24:00.000-08:002009-11-06T19:33:49.442-08:00dinner failActual comments from my family during supper tonight:".... what's in the potatoes?""This is a 'floss' meal.""The gristle's actually not too bad.""So... when are we having pizza?""I'm gonna top this off with a bowl of cereal."I concede that the meat was undercooked. My ravenous family, unwilling to delay supper any further, pulled the fresh beef brisket from the oven, sliced it and served it Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-40566007550061904992009-10-10T09:54:00.001-07:002009-10-10T09:54:17.278-07:00Stolen bras recovered, but no bust made :: WRAL.comBest headline I've read in a while. Don't really care about the story! lolStolen bras recovered, but no bust made :: WRAL.comShared via AddThisAnnecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-53810490781692210512009-10-09T12:41:00.000-07:002009-10-09T14:19:29.657-07:00towandaWith the soon advent of The Rain (this event in the Pac NW gets its own capital letters), A. decided today was "strip the garden day."We betook ourselves to our garden plot, which, once The Rain comes, will become a large field of chocolate pudding, hazardous to muck boots and small children. We lost a child out there once. (We did eventually retrieve her.) So the goal was clear: harvest the Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367164.post-16466860379803215882009-10-08T10:06:00.000-07:002009-10-08T10:21:05.450-07:00begorrahSomething I've never noodled out before is the relative merits and deficiencies of bond weights of paper. Apparently 20 lb paper messes up our laser printer; 24 lb does not.I am supposed to remember this from an apparent tragic occurrence in my distant past: 20 lb paper messes up the printer, and it's a pain to fix. I only remember this dimly. However, I strongly remember that someone in Annecouragerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15523491691533165874noreply@blogger.com3