When I was in college, I took a class with a professor whom my friends and I quickly discovered was easy to distract by telling a good story. So began our inside joke of beginning a story with "One time, when I was little..." I've recently become increasingly aware of the need to write down my family stories, so that's why I started this new blog!
My first story will be from my Mom:

"When I was growing up, our whole family always went outside after supper and sat in chairs and talked. One time, we went outside and talked so long it got dark. Daddy told me to run inside and turn on the lights. My sister Sue and I went inside, and I thought it would be funny to scream to play a joke on her. Well, when I screamed, Sue screamed, so I thought she must have seen something I didn't, so I screamed again. That's when Daddy came running in and found us both screaming and chewed us out."