We are semi-iced in today. I say semi because no one has driven on our street and we don’t have anywhere to go. But it’s totally possibly that the main road a block and a half away is fine. It is cold and wet and I don’t really care to find out.
At lunch time, I was heating some Campbell’s Chunky Soup (which we never buy but the Progresso was picked over). I was telling her about how my Grandma ALWAYS had Chunky Soup (not Grandma who died last year; my other Grandma) and all the different things I would do with my her (namely – go to Roy Rogers, shop, read books). Then Ursula asked if she “ordered me books”. Well, no – there was no ordering books online back then, not til I was a grown up.
This led to a lively discussion – I was a little older than she was when we got our first computer, Dan didn’t have a home computer until after we were married, computer screens used to be black with green or yellow letters, there was no internet*, there were no cell phones, blah blah blah. Dan joined in – it was quite exciting.
Then she said “did you have soft beds and stuffed animals?” Yes – because no Webkinz online is EXACTLY like rope beds and straw mattresses with no toys! I tried to explain that houses were pretty much the same – just no computers and cell phones and we couldn’t pause TV (newsflash: we couldn’t even do that when Ursula was a baby! We go our first DVR in 2005, so I could record Lost when we were in Disney World.) Then she asked if there were stop signs and if girls could have jobs (yes to both). She then asked if there was Starfall.com – um, which part of no computers and internet did you not understand?
* yes, I know this is technically untrue, but it wasn’t the internet she knows.
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