Merrill and Roberta Simon and Family

Tomorrow we bring Montana home. We are going through all the emotions and then some. Sleep is not fast in coming. While I wonder why, while I ponder how, while I go through the what ifs.....I keep hearing a song that I love. An oldie but a goodie, one we do not hear in church any longer. It says it all. I hope more of you know it than do not.  Thanks for checking on us. I Know Who Holds Tomorrow words and music by Ira Stanphill I don't know about tomorrow, I just live from day to day. I don't borrow from it's sunshine, For it's skies may turn to gray. I don't worry o'er the future, For I know what Jesus said, And today I'll walk beside Him, For He knows what is ahead. Refrain Many things about tomorrow, I don't seem to understand; But I know Who holds tomorrow, And I know Who holds my hand. Ev'ry step is getting brighter, As the golden stairs I climb; Ev'ry burden's getting lighter; Ev'ry cloud is silver li...

Merrill and I were able to both go visit Montana today. Our little man is not so little. Matter of fact, I am pretty certain our baby is the biggest baby in the NICU. Today he topped the scales at 9lbs and 6ozs. Looks like he will get to come home Tuesday or Wednesday. Needless to say, this entire family is excited about his homecoming. At church this morning we were asked to pray for a family. The mom to be had been been in the hospital trying to keep her precious baby inside as long as she could. By this morning it was too much for her and the baby and she gave birth to a little boy 11 weeks too early. While getting settled in NICU today with our rather big little man, I couldn't help but to notice the tiny little bundle who was now one of Montana's roommates. So little, so precious, so helpless. Imagine Merrill's and my surprise when the daddy we had prayed for walked in. It brought tears to my eyes. I will never really know their pain. I will never fully grasp how a...

You know, there are a million reasons why Merrill and I should not adopt another baby...trust me, we know them all. We have talked about many of them and each and every one of them are very good reasons. We were not looking for Montana or any other baby for that matter. But I guess Montana was looking for us. It is funny, when you do something just a bit different than most people, for example, adopting a whole lot of children rather than 2 or 6 or even 8, there is an entire group of people that want to tell you why you are wrong to do what you do. It happened yesterday. Someone asked me if I had even stopped to think about how old I was going to be when Montana was 18. Why ask that question? I know how OLD I am when he is just shy of three weeks, of course I know how old I will be in 18 years. Thank Goodness my parents were able to afford a great education for me and Merrill had the same :o) Is it really necessary to suggest that he would be better off with younger parents? Merri...

It seems to me that every time I say NEVER, I eat those words rather quickly. When Michael was little, I said we were lucky as he really NEVER spilled his drinks. I think he spilled every glass of milk for the next six months. Of course I had not clue about that then, so I said we were lucky he NEVER wet his bed, that he potty trained almost over night. Well, he went on to wet the bed for months. Next it went on that Michael NEVER bit a child...yeppers you got it, he started biting. Merrill asked me then to stop saying NEVER. Well, I am a rather slow learner. About 11 or 12 years ago I said we would NEVER adopt another girl, unless of course God delivered her on the door step with the adoption certificate signed....never underestimate the humor from above, before you knew it, We had LisaMarie and the rest is history. So, why am I writing about this. Well, let me tell you. We were 50 and 52 years old when we were gifted with Maverick. Who would have thought that Merrill and I woul...

I am not really all that sure how Merrill and I have been so blessed with each one of our children. Now do not get me wrong, some days are just so much longer than others. There are days that I am not sure just how we will get to the end of the day, but God always is faithful to us and somehow we make it. IT is a wonderful feeling. Then, as with every other parent out there, you get a "WOW Moment". That time when you hear something that just makes you go "WOW". That happened to me just the other day. It was actually the first day of Vacation Bible School. I had upset McClain by asking that he be moved into the older group as that was the group he belonged in. He was totally worried about it and let me know he was disappointed. Really, what was a Mom to do? Towards the end of the morning, I asked him how things were going shooting him the thumbs up sign. He shot back a rather sad face. I felt like a total heel. So, knowing that McClain sure knows how to get to me...

Well Lordy be, I have sure neglected this blog of ours. I am surprised to see that we have any one following this blog...LOL This family has stayed busy this summer and I have done my level best for them to have little to no down time. I will have to take the time to share with ya'll all about it. We have done Tahoe Tuesday where we have gone up to the lake nearly every Tuesday for the day with a few other large families. So much fun. We have done summer school for most of the children....a few I kept home due to disagreements and my feeling they were better off at home rather than school. School starts in two and a half weeks...we shall see. The children did a month of swim lessons and we have traveled to California for Merrill's Military Duty had family day. So, we all went and enjoyed ourselves. Plus we got to hook up with Mallroy for about three hours. WOW. It had ben nearly 5 years since we have seen her. So, I promise to sit down later this week and get this all back ...