Anne of Green Gables

So I am a little behind. I think you are supposed to read Anne when you are about 11 or 12. But I never did. So now Erin and I are reading them. I even bought myself a Kindle so I didn't have to borrow one from Eric anymore. I am loving the books and all the little messages that it teaches little (and in my case-big) girls.

I was reading Book 4 last night and came across a paragraph that made me laugh. Actually I laugh a lot while reading it, but this paragraph touched me more than the rest. She is writing a letter to her fiance, Gilbert.

"Gilbert, darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!"

I am not adventurous and I am afraid of everything! So I just laughed when it got to the last part about the mention of twins. I found it hilarious that she lumps typhoid and twins into the same category as typhoid.