Merrill and Roberta Simon and Family

This is short and sweet. I have been working on a new blog post that was near and dear to my heart. Today when I got on to work on it, I was shocked with what I saw. Someone with rather poor spelling I might add, had hacked into our blog and really wrote some rather sad views on our life. I hope that no one read this, but if you did, I am so sorry. Parts of it were my thoughts....like the very first sentence and then the words to a song that I love. Other than that, who really knows. I have taken precaution to stop this and I hope that it does not happen again. Check back in a few days as I hope to have this all fixed up again. Thanks for your support and as always, your words of kindness to us. .

Well, here is the post I was working on before this blog was hacked. It has been in my heart and soul for weeks. I hope and pray that it comes out the way I want it too, with sincerity as well as a bit of pride. My brother Bobby, called me once and said that when he listened to this song by Brooks and Dunn that he always thought of Merrill and I. To be honest, I had never even heard of the song before. So Bobby, being the top notch brother that he is, sent it to me. Then he sang with it to me. Gotta love him. Anyway, I fell in love with this song. Every time I hear it I think of him and then of Merrill and I. If you do not know it, please find it and listen to it. (words folloing this post) Anyway, on with my thoughts. So many of you know Merrill's and my story. I believe with all my heart that we were put on this journey of adopting long ago. I was only 8 years old when I told my mama that I was never going to have children, I was going to adopt. Merrill and I were the perfect...

Here we are, in a new decade, a new beginning, a whole new world. As I look back on the past ten years I can honestly say it has been on heck of a ride. Our family has changed, we have grown, we have had a fair share of ups and also our fair share of downs. While I am sure this is not really any different than most if not all families, it is still something to look back on. We started this decade with 12 children, we now have 18. Up close, we lost Jason, our 14 year old son, whose life was really more of a miracle than one filled with sadness. Merrill and I have both said good bye to our dads and I said good bye to a brother. Death is never easy but it helps you realize how wonderful life is and how you need to live it to the fullest. Funny, we all say this, the hard part is remembering it and doing it. Merrill is blessed to still have his Mother alive. Lord willing we will go see her for her 81st birthday in a few weeks. I myself nearly died. I was in the hospital for three mont...