Merrill and Roberta Simon and Family

I belong to this message board and they have been chatting back an forth about things that are said to them. Let me start out by saying all of these parents have been to hell and back with medical issues concerning their children. They have hurt, they have watched their child/children go through many surgeries and have worried if their child might not make it till the next day.....or maybe even the next hour. Their road has been painfully traveled. The tone of the chit chat has been about how they seem to feel that a parent to a "normal" child with just the "normal" childhood ups and downs has no right to complain or maybe the reality is they have no right to complain while in front of them. I am not really sure. What I do know is that it has made me feel a great sadness for them. They are a great bunch of parents. They have really traveled a hard journey with their child. Most of their children are now doing okay...still involved medically, but all in all, okay.

How do you "Feel The Power"? Funny how everyone "Feels The Power" in a different way. I think Maverick feels the power in his little trucks that he plays with and then tucks neatly under the fruit and vegetable basket so he can find them fast later in the day. He "vrooms" and honks and toots with his trucks while knowing that no ones trucks are as good and as powerful as his. He can push them faster than anyone else and they have just the right amount of speed. Now Joey feels the power in a very different way. He knows his hero, Superman, is as powerful as anyone around. There is none better. I mean face it, Superman can do anything to anyone at any time. HE can save the entire world and he never lets us down. Maybe Joey knows where the real power is....SUPERMAN!! McClain knows where the power really is. Anyone that knows McClain knows that it is all about GRAVEDIGGER!!! DIGGER TIME. Graver Digger can crush anything in his way. He knows it, the other

'MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL' You say you will never forget where you were when you heard the news On September 11, 2001. Neither will I. I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room with a man who called his wife to say 'Good-Bye.' I held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the peace to say, 'Honey, I am not going to make it, but it is OK..I am ready to go.' I was with his wife when he called as she fed breakfast to their children. I held her up as she tried to understand his words and as she realized he wasn't coming home that night. I was in the stairwell of the 23rd floor when a woman cried out to Me for help. 'I have been knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years!' I said. 'Of course I will show you the way home - only believe in Me now.' I was at the base of the building with the Priest ministering to the injured and devastated souls. I took hi

Here we are, it is school time. No time to stop for anything. Meetings, homework, teachers calling, automated school calls, IEPs, nurses from school calling, notebooks to fill out, lunches to make. It just never stops. The kids are excited. The calendar fills up faster than fast. It is just on turbo speed at all times. Funny, it seems that all of our children love school. They get up ready to go and they just like being there. This year the school hours changed and I am really not liking that at all. The younger children do not leave until 8:30 and if you can even believe it, they get home at 4:45 pm. Merrill beats them home most days.Of course just to keep you on your toes a bit more, we now have late starts every Thursday morning. So they all go one hour later. At least last year they were on Fridays and that was better all around. All of this change is for the betterment of the education system. I have to wonder that when you are sitting at number 50 as a state in education, how

At least that is what we would like to think :o) So, Mr. Montana has been home for three full days and nights. So far so good. The children still love him and trust me, that is a good thing. Every time he cries, Maverick offers him his binky. Please note that a binky solves all things for Maverick. MacGyver still wants to "pet" him and is willing to wash his hands so he can "pet" him. Joey still is talking himself through the fact that Montana needs love and clean hands to touch him. McClain is mostly concerned about the fact that he can only make out one nostril and really wants to make sure that the doctor will make his second one. McClain also proudly introduces Montana to his friends and tells them that before you meet him, he looks funny, but we love him. Face it, you have to love his down to earth manner. LisaMarie is really into mothering him and really is trying to help whenever she can. Micah just keeps checking him out, Jericho and Joseph do not seem to