14:49 Feb 04 2015
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Went over to Cat *Nightgame aka* home and had cake for her niece 18th brithday. Wow- time goes by fast. I remember when she was born, the night I stayed with her Mom in the hospital to give the others time to rest. The offer to first hold her, the one and only diaper I changed came off her butt. And let's just say... she was a stinky kid. lol
But now she if facing collage.
Wow- time, gone.
It reminds me of a blog I read tho. It was by this lady who was a grandmother to 4 kids, the oldest one staying with her that day. She was sitting at her kitchen table with the bills for the month all sorted out, check book in hand when she had the great ideal of letting her granddaughter pay the bills.
So she called the girl in, sat her down, explained the 'this goes in this envelope, this in this one" and handed her the check book. She wonder down to the basement to switch the laods in the washer/ dryer, even took time to fold them as she had it in her mind her oldest granddaughter was learning what life was, what was coming ahead for her as she grew up and left home. She was being a great Grandma, teaching her this lesson.
So she returend upstair, went into the kitchen expecting the bills to be paid, stamped, ready to go in the mail. What she found was the child sitting, not doing a anything.
After asking her what was wrong- she learned the child did not know how to write a check. She understood the date, and account number but did not know where to put it on the check. And she was able to put in the amount, after her grandmother told her the numbers went in the little box, the spelling in the long line. But she couldn't understand who to write it to. The woman sat, stun. "You have never wrote a check?" "No. Mom pays online, I don't know why you don't."
She sat at the table, dumbstruck. Has it come to this- has the new generation gone that far down the computer age? "So- you could do this if it was online?" She asked her child. Then she pointed out this was the child who she went to for computer help. She was able to fix, search out anything asked of her. Want to order take out? This child did it on her phone, online. What movie was coming out that weekend- this child told her. "Of course."
As she sat there thinking just how different this child upbringing had been, she watched put stamps on the bills. "You need to put return address on them." "Ok- where?" That is at the point she realized the girl had never sent anything by mail "Did you not have a pen pal as a kid?" "Sure- we still email each other even. What has that got to do with this?"
The woman just pointed to the left hand top corner, and the girl finished her task. And the grandmother came to see she was a gas eating SUV in a age of the hybrid cars. She looked down at the bills, the stamps and asked the girl to help her set up online payments. The girl smiled, jumped up and went to get her grandmothers laptop.
In a way- that is what Cat's neice does for me. She shows you how old you are, how outdated you can get. Heck, just this last 4 or 5 months I have started to use text. How bad is that? lol And she has collage, so much to look forward to. And I wish her the very best.
I just hope she knows how to write a check, mail it. ;) Never know when that can come in useful.
And I am still waiting for the whole "Place your order online and we will pull it, have it ready" thing to come to a grocery store/ store near us. lol That I would so use.
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