All Things Anne

I should have been Italian. I love garlic. (I don’t love tomato-y stuff though, I like white sauce–with garlic.) So. Tonight I was frying some hamburger, and I grabbed the garlic–first ingredient!–out of the cupboard, and since I always keep it in a certain way, I was confident…I opened the “sprinkle” flappy thing on the [...]

Once upon a time, there was the morning of April 30th, and on this morning, Dad, Mom, Rase, Jay, Abby, and I were in the living room. Abby was on my lap, giving me hugs (at one point she threw her arms around me and said “I love you!” ).
“It’s going to be your birthday [...]

So I suppose the point of this is to tell you about them, right? Well what if I didn’t? You’d see that title and think “Oh yay, something very interesting happened in the McNerd household, and I’m gonna read about it!” then you get here and…nothing.
I’m so mean.
Ok, fine, I’ll tell you.
Oh rats. There went [...]

The Weather (The weather is always a good subject, isn’t it?)
We have long been bemoaning the absence of Spring…the temperatures haven’t been much above 60º, and it snowed a week ago or so. Well, today it got up to 85º, and is supposed to be 81º tomorrow! The kids washed the van today–and it rained [...]

My little brother Rase is learning how to spell…he can’t read yet, but he can spell! He can’t write on his own, either, unless you spell out every word. Small words are fine, but sometimes people don’t have the patience for him when he yells “How do you spell ‘Dear Gramma and Papa’?”
He’ll get up [...]