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 [...]

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?” [...]

I had a rather funny thing happen to me today, when I was simply trying to ask Eric to take a turkey out of the freezer. Sometimes funny things happen when you have a lot of phones, I guess.
Like I said, all I was trying to do was ask Eric to take the turkey out [...]

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 [...]