This is the age of technology!

I'm sitting at home tonight after all of the kids are in bed except for Taylor. Taylor has gotten to the age where I can actually have a conversation with her and not get bored or feel like I have to repeat myself 15 million times. It's kind of nice, to have a semi-adult conversation with my teenager...kind of because this also means that I'm losing my little girl. But that's another story. Tonight's story is that of the age of technology...and so it begins.

My story starts with a fresh new teenager asking her mother to teach her to type. My older girls have always been astonished at the speed of my typing. Seems second nature to me, since I do it every single day. But to them, it is an amazing feat. So I mention to Taylor that I can try to teach her. Everything I learned, I learned in my Senior year of high school...17 years ago! Yes, that's right...17 years. Suddenly I feel ancient. So, I tell her that I've had quite a few years to practice. I explained to her that I learned to type on an actual typewriter. She says "you mean one of those big, clunky things?!?!" Yes Taylor, one of those big, clunky things. And I had to use white out to fix my mistakes. And there was no backspace, and no way to save your work. You finish what you start-period! She looks at me in amazement--"You mean, you didn't have a computer??" At this question, I tell her that the first computer I had was when she was about 1 year old. She seems puzzled by this, so I go on to tell her that we had internet then, but not like there is now. No google, no wikipedia. Just your basic email, and it was dial up. Which meant that you chose, either phone OR internet. Not both at the same time. This seemed unfathomable to Taylor. "Wait, you mean you can't be like talking on the phone and sending email at the same time, and looking something up on google?? You mean like you had to open the internet, and then go do something else waiting for it to load?" Yes Taylor, it really was THAT slow. "Really? I didn't realize that computers were that YOUNG."

Feeling old yet??? I know I am!!