A couple of days ago, we had a guest, Mary Devine, over to our house for dinner. She met Pearl for the first time and could not stop laughing at how cute Pearl was with her tongue hanging out! Any how, she asks, "How old is Pearl?" To which Meredith, who is 12 now, answers that Pearl is almost 2 years old. Then Mary Devine ask, "Well how old is Duke?" Meredith (shown in the 2nd picture -- black shirt with reversed white ball cap) answers, "9 years old." To which Mary Glenn say, "No. We got Duke when Evelyn was 2 and Evy is now 10, so Duke is only 8." Meredith doesn't even pause for a second and she replies, "Yes, but he's been 8 for 2 years now!"
Then today, we had an interesting discussion around the dinner table about the law of diminishing marginal utility -- the law that says that each additional drink of water or lick of an ice cream cone delivers less and less satisfaction (utility), until you finally get to the point where you don't want another ounce of water or ice cream. The topic was brought up by Ellen who was wondering if she would every lose her love and zeal for Camp Susque (since she just got back from camp this afternoon). Needless to say, both she and Evelyn had a great week at Camp Susque (www.campsusque.org). Anyhow, we discussed long and hard about the fact that the law of diminishing marginal utility applies to pretty near EVERY aspect of life. So while we get "bored" of going to our own church, it always seems more exciting to visit other churches, mostly because it is new and different. But sooner or later the novelty would wear off no matter what church you'd attend.
After this long conversation, which was listened to by the entire family, Clint (shown in the top picture with his mother on his 14th birthday), later tonight before he went to bed stopped me in the kitchen and said, (really funny!) "Dad, I just want you to know that I had 2 full bowls of Captain Crunch for a snack and the second bowl was JUST AS GOOD as the first bowl!" I cracked up!
