Technology

Blogging can be tiring!  Three blogs and trying to keep up with them is exhausting.  On the other hand, it is such a "cool" way to keep in touch with family.  So it can be rewarding, too!!  Maybe it isn't just the blogging ... it is technology itself.  The more I learn the more I want to learn and do.


I have added to my technology recently.  I not only have a Mac laptop, an iPod, and my iPhone; I now have an iPad.  If someone were to ask me which one I like best or prefer, I'd have to reply "I don't know".  They all seem to be important to me depending on where I'm at .... so I end up carrying nearly all of them with me where ere I go.  I look like a "geek"!!  I keep my iPhone and iPod in my hip pockets, which looks like I'm a quick-draw "tech-slinger".  I usually have the iPad in hand and if I go anywhere longer than a day, I pack my Mac along, too.  Something is really wrong with this picture!


At this point, my email is always overloaded.  Everywhere I go, my "pockets" seem to be "dinging" with mail alerts.  Pretty funny to some!!  But what the heck, I'm on the go and in the know .... right?  And if I can't be reached by phone, email, or messenger, then "Ping" ... "Textie" .... or "Kik" always works.  Yep!  I've got them all!


I carry my journal, all of my photos, genealogy, finances, library (books), movies, music ...... all of it is "onboard" not matter where I am!  


What can I say .... my sons have made me into a "junkie"!!

Morning Thoughts

Every morning I make it a ritual to check everyone's blog to see if they have written since the day before. Most of the time I am so disappointed to find that no one has updated.  But then I realize that neither have I!  It is so hard to keep up, isn't it?

I love having children in our house again .... especially if they are my grandkids!  I am so happy that Mike, Christina, Caitlin, Carter and William have had to have a "stop-off" place to stay a few weeks while they are waiting to get into their new home.  It is so nice to hear those little voices every morning as they wake and get ready for the day and the good morning hugs that I get when the grandkids are around.  I miss that part of our younger life.  (It gets awfully quiet after the kids all leave home and all that is left is "old" people.  We can get awfully repetitive and boring!)

Once when our own children were little, I had them all lined up on the bench at church and they were being especially irreverent.  I knew they were disrupting the meeting for everyone around us.  As I was trying to get them under control, an older lady sitting behind me leaned over and whispered in my ear, "Be patient and love them.  They grow up all too soon."  I smiled and thought to myself, "It's easy for you to say.  You can sit there, listen to what is being said and not have to deal with it."  I couldn't imagine that the day would come when I would feel the same as that dear sister was feeling.  But how true it is!  Although I wouldn't want to begin again to raise children in today's world, I miss having the "patter of little feet" in the house.  I am so grateful for times when we have grandkid's come so I can remember the wonders ... yes and trials ... of motherhood.  And I find myself thinking and sometimes saying, "Be patient and love them.  They grow up all too soon"!