All Things Anne

To write a post, I’ll have to back up a few weeks, to the Jamboree fundraiser Char H. put on, for her family to adopt a Filipino girl, Annie, whom they sponsored in the Summer of Hope program last year. Our family made a whole bunch of eggrolls, and it was really fun! There were [...]

Especially when one hasn’t much to write about, or doesn’t know what to write about! See the end of the post for the best parts though.

An ornamental knife Ben made for the fund raiser our friends are putting on to adopt the Filipino girl

Another view. The blade is made out of an old [...]

Tonight at dinner we were discussing how since we’re a large family, people always stare at us and comment about how we’re such a large family, etc. Joe was like “Argg!! Everybody stares at us! I hate being looked at while I’m eating! I’m the third of twelve kids! And when I get married people [...]

I was in my room, listening to the grinding, growling noise my old alarm clock makes (which I don’t use, by the way, since I use my cell phone for alarms), when suddenly it quit. “Finally gave up the ghost,” I thought, and left the room. Things were much too quiet. “Is the power off?” [...]

The other day Jay asked me for something to eat.
“Why? Don’t you have something to eat?” I asked.
“Yeah, but all they gave me was bread and leafs! And I hate leafs!” (Leafs = fresh spinach)
Today Dad was reading a Cabella’s magazine, and Jay and Rase were watching. They fell to discussing whether Joe got his [...]