Merritt Memories

"I quit!" We were having a hectic morning. Grace and Aaron have been sick, so I was getting everyone ready to go to the doctor. Well, Kate never likes to get ready for the day. She likes to run around naked. We were in a hurry , and I will say I was being a little bossy to get out of the door on time. She hates getting her hair done, so she was mad! When we were all done she turned to me and said ,"Mom, I quit!" I asked what she meant. She said, more determined for me to understand, "I quit this family!" I couldn't hide my little chuckle, but composed myself quickily. I said, "Kate if you quit this family where will you go?" "I wil go to my room!" she explained. "But if you quit, you have to leave," I told her. "Fine," she said. I pulled her close and I told her how much I will miss her. "I don't want you to quit our family." "I am!" she insisted. "Okay, lets call Dad and let him know...

The BIG talk! Okay, so we had "the talk" with our boys. Now, I share this so all you have not, can learn from our experience. Dustin and I had not sat down with eachother and discussed the things we should say to them(mistake #1). The boys were wathching TV with him, and the term sex offender was mentioned on the news. Ryan asked, "Dad what's sex?" I was not downstairs, I was bathing the girls upstairs. Dustin called to me. He let me know what they asked, and said we needed to talk to them. I said okay, and finished bathing the girls. I did not ask him to wait for me, I thought he would(mistake #2). I came down the stairs. All I heard was some very discriptive nouns about the male and female bodies(certain "parts"). He was explaining how they "become one" (this is not the way he said it). All I could think in my head was, "Fit together like a puzzle" over and over again. I had seen a Dr. Phil where he was talking about how to talk ...

The Jordan Circus!! We were able to take the kids to the circus this past week. It wasn't the great, big one. but they still had fun. The circus was pretty sad. The HIGH wire was only about 6 ft. off the ground, and there wasn't much OOOOing and AHHHHing, but the kids liked the clowns! I had never been to a circus, Dust told me that one wasn't a good one. He's been to The Barnum and Bailey and said it was amazing. For the prices they charged, you might have thought it was. $16.00 for an adult, $10.00 for a child 12 and under. We saved a little money because the boys brought home some passes from school, so we thought we would take them on some of the animal rides. To ride an elephant was $7.00 per child and the ponies were $6.00. We couldn't believe it! Aaron was pretty grumpy because we didn't get to go on the animals. You can tell in the pictures. Kate, she's always HAPPY! Aaron, pretty bored waiting for the show to start. He was in a bad mood. Ryan and...