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 [...]

The only time you truly look at something without the screen of your bias is the first time. Once you’ve made up your mind, that bias forever colors your thinking. It’s possible to change your bias, but it’s hard.
A bias is the way you look at things. Think of glasses. If you have rose-colored glasses, [...]

Funny that us, who don’t “do” Santa, have had two brushes with the famous red-wearing, chimney-climbing fat man. I’m sorry to break it to you, folks, but I do have three facts that will change forever your perception of said Santa (who really should know better than to climb chimneys in an outfit that has [...]

It’s been a standing joke, though (somewhat) true, among our family and relatives that we exist on beans and rice. This impression is given for two reasons:
1. This past year we were afraid we wouldn’t have enough meat, so we went easy on that.
2. You know what Dave Ramsey says; beans and rice! It’s cheap!
It’s [...]

Saturday
10:30 am Off on our way! Dad said we were supposed to get up at 7 (he set his clock for 6:30…that’s cuz he hits snooze so much!), so I got up a little early to finish an email, but Mom wasn’t up yet so I had to wait a bit anyway! But I did [...]