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Posts tagged ‘Tess’

Finally a Post!

May 4th, 2008

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 [...]

Cameras are handy, you know

March 26th, 2008

Especially when one hasn’t much to write about, or doesn’t know what to write about! See the end of the post for the best parts though.

An ornamental knife Ben made for the fund raiser our friends are putting on to adopt the Filipino girl

Another view. The blade is made out of an old [...]

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 [...]

Abby Grows Up

February 15th, 2008

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 [...]

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, [...]