All Things Anne

God’s Sense of Humor

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!”

What We Saw and What We Did

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 get my email sent.
We packed our bedding and bags, and anything else we forgot, until we forgot something else! No, I mean we packed all the things we hadn’t before. Let’s hope we have enough toilet paper…
We don’t have cookies this time, either! Too bad. Let’s hope we have enough emergency rations too, eh?

You know how when an apple rots it is mulch for the ground? Well, is it cannibalism if an apple tree is mulched by its own apples?

10:45 am At the gas station. Ben’s filling his tank and Dad’s filling the gas tanks for the generator. You know this time, only the eight of us are going. (Only. ha!) Mom, Tess, Rase, Jay, Abby, and Elle Jane are at home…that means Dad, Ben, Joe, Eric, Beth, Em, Kate, and I are going. Over half the family, thanks to the twins being two instead of one!
We will definitely get to camp sooner than last time! (more…)

This is just too amazing

Talk about another God thing! All summer Mom has been working with Darren and Valerie to get the school (SOS, Switched On Schoolhouse) to work. One of our routers went and that seemed to have affected the network as well, so Darren and Valerie weren’t even on the network. Then, Valerie started acting up and internet didn’t even work.

Well.

Mom decided today was the start of the school year, for better or for worse. At the very least, they could all do their school on Mother.

Mom went to mess with the network on Darren, and lo and behold…there was the network! All the computers! She went over to Valerie and brought up IE. Voila, internet! Her comment: “God is on my side!!”

This post brought to you by the awesomely sweet computer George Bonswah Beethoven who thankfully doesn’t need any school on himself!