and so it goes

There is nothing super exciting to blog about, but with 4 kids I should be able to come up with something.


I know it is said that every generation is different than the next. My kids are experiencing many different things than I did when I was their age. Alot of the the convinces are because of the advancement in technology. I remember when I was in High School this is how I called home....

We had this little beauty at the back of the school and it was gross and always broken.

My kids have this little goodie to call home with.

Well I should say they did have this to call home with. Both of my girls dropped their phones in water "on accident". I think they were hoping to get better ones since theirs were broken. Well that didn't work for them. They are now saving up their own money to buy a new phone at the full price since their dad will not extend the contract so they can get the cheaper price. So maybe they will take care of the new phone when the actually get it. TJ had this little red beauty in the picture and it works just fine. Well in works fine in my closet, because that is it's home for now. I don't want to rat him out completely but let's just say his text messages exceeded what we and the rest of the world thought was normal. We also thought texting at 1am was alittle extreme.

Our lovely responsible (for the most part) 10 year old child is the only one who still has possession of his phone. The sad thing is, it is his dad's old dinosaur of a cell phone.

It looks something like these phones but old, dirty, and it has a screen that is completely unreadable. The funny thing is that when he can't find it, it is because the other kids have taken it to use because they no longer have one.

So as much as giving the kids cell phones is such a convenience and great to have when they are away from home, they are also a total pain in the rump to monitor and not easy to keep your kids in the land of reality when they have them.

A few weeks ago when I took TJ's phone away and he was not sure what to do. He said "how am I supposed to call my girl friend if I don't have me phone?" I just stared and shook my head and said "we have a phone here at the house. A real phone. I talk on it all the time and it works fantastic. It is the same kind of phone I had to talk to my boyfriends on when I was your age and you can actually hear the other persons voice because you are not typing at them".

He did not like the answer and I think he is now using the computer to talk to people so we may have to monitor that alittle bit better.

Seriously why is it so hard to pick up the phone and call when you want to talk to someone.

Don't get me wrong I love to text just like the next person, but I do it to send a quick message not to carry on a conversation.

It is nice to see my kids can actually survive without these little devices in their hands and a little detox will be good for them.

I am still trying to find out where the Thayne and Heather of last year went. The Thayne and Heather that said "our kids will not have their own cell phones".

Where did we go?