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Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

February 11, 2007 By Jenny Ryan 5 Comments

Yesterday after the wedding we all went back to the hotel to change clothes before heading over to a post-wedding party at my aunt and uncle’s house. As we were waiting for our group to gather in the lobby we started talking about some of the cousins who weren’t able to attend the wedding, and my 13-year-old cousin asked how much older they are than she is.

“Oh, I know,” I said, and then proceeded to list off the birth years of the cousins in question. “I know when everyone was born. [First cousin] was 1971, then me in 1972,…” and then continued through cousin #12 who was born in 2001.”

“Hm,” replied my aunt. I thought at first that she was impressed by my vast repository of family knowledge until she turned to my husband and asked, “So, what’s it like being married to Monk?”

Filed Under: CFG And Family Affairs Tagged With: families, funny stories, OCD

Wow, My Powers Really Do Do Good!

July 28, 2006 By Jenny Ryan 3 Comments

Today I received what is maybe the most wonderful comment I’ve yet received on my blog and my writing. And it came as a result of a pretty difficult situation for our family.

My grandfather had one of his knees replaced at the beginning of this week. Everything was going fine, until two nights ago when he had a heart attack. Apparently they are having trouble stabilizing his heart rate, so they had to move him from his original hospital to a hospital 3 hours away. [Read more…] about Wow, My Powers Really Do Do Good!

Filed Under: CFG And Family Affairs, Using My Powers Tagged With: families, funny stories

Things That Make You Say, “What?!”: Christmas 2005

December 25, 2005 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

1. My husband and I spent the Christmas holiday with his parents, in their newly renovated mountain home. We were all gathered in the living room on Christmas Eve, in that nice, mellow, semi-hypnotic stupor that comes from knowing that there is nothing left to prepare for the next day, and that all of your loved ones are together in one place.

As we were discussing the arrangements for attending Midnight Mass, I saw my mother-in-law look over her assembled family and prepare to speak. I thought she was going to talk about how nice it was to have everyone all together, or discuss what a pleasant holiday it had been so far. Instead, we all witnessed the following exchange:

My mother-in-law: (to my husband) “So, what do you think about cremation?”

My husband: “You mean, as an alternative to going to church? Um, I’d like to go to church.”

2. Christmas Eve is also my husband’s birthday, so my family and his family got together for brunch to celebrate with him. As I was walking back to the table from the restroom I heard someone say, “Well, for that you really need your own bazooka.” I was afraid to inquire any further.

3. A new acquaintance explaining their entry into the world: “I wasn’t born. I was gifted down to people from the gods.”

Filed Under: CFG And Family Affairs, CFG Says, What?! Tagged With: christmas, families

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