All Things Anne

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 also been known (well, joked about) that a “treat” is beans AND rice in the same dinner, or meat in the chili. (By the way, did you know there’s two kinds of chili? I was just curious so I looked it up. “Chili” is actually the meatless variety, “chili con carne” is actually the mostly-meat kind. Just a bit of trivia for ya there!)

Anyways. God really does have a sense of humor. Just think about it, and take a look at this verse! (It’s Joe’s life verse, by the way. Ask him about it!)

Psalm 59:7
Indeed, they belch with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips;
For they say, “Who hears?”

On our end, we’re experiencing God’s sense of humor right now. A few months ago Mom bought 50 pound sacks of red potatoes for a good price, now, potatoes aren’t something we usually have all the time! Secondly, our pinto beans ran out. Thirdly, we have a lot of deer meat (two freezers full!!). Guess what we’ve had for dinner the last few nights? Meat and potatoes!

At dinnertime, I had made two 9×13 pans of meatloaf, and Mom said, “Boy, I feel weird having so much meat.”
“Well,” I said, “if I make one pan you’d say it wasn’t enough; now I made two pans and you feel weird?? Well if you feel so bad about it I could feed the one pan to the dog!”
“No, it’s just weird having this much meat all the time!”
“Yeah, and the beans are gone!”
“This must be God’s sense of humor!” Mom said.
Ben aptly concluded, “If this is God’s sense of humor, He can keep at it!”