All Things Anne

The Adventure of the Chair
or, The Redneck Home Improvement Show
Once upon a time there was a family who at one time had very nice office chairs, but over the years of use, had become…well, not-so-nice. One was a trick chair–if you leaned too far back, you fell over. The back was broken on another so [...]

The other day Mom acquired a mattress, and since the big boys moved out of the room downstairs and the little boys moved onto the triple bunk bed, there was an extra bed frame. The twins, Tess, and Beth cleaned the little girls’ room (the twins and Tess share it), and moved the bedframe into [...]

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, [...]

Remember how we don’t eat sweets in the month of January? Well. Last night Dad came home, and he brought two boxes that looked like pizza boxes, and a gallon of milk. When I saw the pizza-like boxes, I thought, “Two pizzas? Dad knows we eat more than just two! Maybe they were a really [...]

Life isn’t fair. If you haven’t heard that before, sorry to break it to you in such a cruel fashion, but it’s only true. I’ll give you an example. We have twelve kids. Seven are girls, five are boys. Is that unfair, or what??
You get the point!
Now, twelve IS an even number, but even still, [...]