Electronic Family

The art of communication has changed considerably since LT and I married.  Back then, if you missed a phone call, well, you didn't know it.  So when you said But I called you! people (i.e. your parents..) had to believe you.  My kids don't have it that easy!

Take last Wednesday for example - here's how we kept in touch:

By IM-ing:
Mary:
Lance and I are going to take dance lessons!
Me:
That's cool!
Mary:
Yeah, we figure we need to be able to dance at the wedding.
Me:
Are you going to learn how to do the Thriller dance?  You should do that for the wedding!
Mary:
Uh NO!
Me:
I guess it WOULD be hard to get that many zombies together on such short notice...
Mary:
That's right mom.

By Email:
Larry (mass emailing the entire family): 
Subject: Dad's Tool Bag of the Future
 http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Consumer-Storage-518150M-18-inch/dp/B000Q5PHGQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t
FYI,
I am putting this on my wish list for birthday, father's day, etc.
Note this has a "shoulder strap"......thus making it a real man's European s houlder bag.....very popular with the "middle-age-man" Parisienne jet setters who want to go around tightening everything up.
Love,
Dad
Mary:
Subject: Re: Dad's Tool Bag of the Future
You only want this because Spence has one and he won't let you play with it.
Me:
Subject: Re: Dad's Tool Bag of the Future
Hahahaha!!  ENVY!!  That's how we got a Keurig and they got Mikey!!
Audrey:
Subject: Re: Dad's Tool Bag of the Future
Through some bizzare blackmarket?
Me:
Subject: Re: Dad's Tool Bag of the Future
1) We saw their Kuerig and died of envy. (We RAN OUT to get one) 
 2) The day I had Mary, Sue (the mother of two boys) called Spence from the hospital and said it's girl season!!  (Unfortunately, 91/2 months later it was NOT girl season in North Carolina where they moved shortly before Mikey was born...)

And by Texting:
Audrey:
Lord help me, I'm on a pms fueled trip to Target
Me:Dad says to get some windshield washer fluid.
Audrey:
How... How'd he know I was out?
Me:
He's Dad.

And there you go!!

And by the way, I TOTALLY think that the Thriller dance NEEDS to be danced at Mary's wedding!!

Who's with me??