Meet Kit

Reese and I finished Meet Kit and Reese has been working hard to add a page to her Good News Journal every day. Last week, I gave her the little 6 inch Kit doll (thanks to Borders 90% clearance, I picked up a few of the dolls for $4 or $5 each to go with the books). Reese has been begging for an American Girl doll since Christmas. The mini doll seems to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. She took Kit to her room and set her up in the attic, because that's where Kit ended up in the book, and took this picture of her. Too cute.

Reese has had a lot of questions about the Great Depression since reading the book. She keeps asking what caused it. We looked as some photos and talked about them. The girls saw the pictures of people out on the street with all of their belongings and said, "that's like Joplin!"

Then the real flood of questions came. "did a tornado cause the Depression?" "If we have a tornado in Bella Vista, will dad lose his job?" "if dad ever loses his job, will we turn our home in to a boarding house, like Kit did?" "Is Joplin in a Depression?"

We placated the plethora of queries by reminding the girls that we have food storage, and savings, and a garden and chickens, so we are prepared to for an emergency or if Aaron were to lose his job.


I think they finally understand. Maybe. The photos from the Depression do look so much like the Joplin tornado wreckage that we saw a few weeks ago, with the overall run down sadness and the people living in tents, etc, that I don't blame them for being confused. I'm pretty sure they still think a tornado was involved with the Depression somehow, but we're working on that.

Tomorrow, we're borrowing the Meet Kit movie from a friend. The girls are so excited!