Happy Mother's Day last Sunday! My husband surprised me with a very thoughtful gift...check out my entry about our bird, Sam...and now what I DIDN'T know was my husband was at the shop to purchase my Mother's Day gift when he found Sam! That is over 3 weeks BEFORE the holiday...so the gift was special in that he had been hiding it from me for a while. It was a beautiful stained-glass picture of a rooster to hang in my kitchen window. Notice the operative word here..."WAS"...I hung it immediately in the window, admired it, then watched it crash to the tile floor and break into pieces. What a bummer!

Later Sunday night I found my husband in the kitchen. Mopping. We have white tile floors, and they show everything. I told him, "Now that's a Mother's Day gift that I can't break!" What a wonderful man he is...after being together 38 years (married 33) he keeps surprising me! That's a truly blessed relationship...one I don't take for granted.

So what did my college-age daughter give me? Monday she took me shopping. To a cell phone store. She pulled me kicking and screaming into the 21st century...purchasing a new cell phone (after she and the sale clerk spent some time laughing at my "dinosaur" of a phone - just because it had green LCD lights???? What's the problem? I could make and receive calls....the only downside was I didn't have cool ring-tones...). So I now have a new phone. It's smaller (wonder if people can hear me OK when it's so small?) with lots of features (I'll figure them out eventually....).

The sales clerk asked if I wanted to add text messaging into the new cellular package. Text messaging? I have a vague idea what that means...I guess I could figure it out....NAAAAAHHHH...don't need a separate "package" for that. $.05/message should suit me just fine. Don't imagine I'll use it much...

Do I sound out of touch with today? Gosh, I hope not! I spend my days at school trying to be the library goddess with all of the answers...technology? No sweat! I can handle it! Just give me a minute while I pull out the instruction manual....(just kidding).

I also got to talk with my two grandkids...quite a feat when you consider the youngest is just now learning short phrases, like "Hi Grandma" and "Cookies!". All in all, it was a wonderful Mother's Day. Over and over I count my blessings. A wonderful husband, two awesome daughters, a talented son-in-law, and two unforgetable grandchildren. It doesn't get any better than this....

(And with a new cell phone, I'm sure I'll be the hippest grandma-library-goddess around!)