Sleepovers….

You know when your kid is at a sleepover and you email the parents (because you told them if they needed to reach you if your child was scared or wanted to come home, you turned off your phones at 9pm and went completely off-the-grid until a reasonable hour, like 8am) just to check in and say hi and that you were kidding about that going off-grid thing and they don’t respond and you think to yourself, “What happened? Why haven’t they replied?”

And they’re probably thinking, “I really want to reply but I don’t want this freak of a Mom to think I’m sitting at my computer when I should be watching the kids and I thought she said she wouldn’t be available after 9pm, doesn’t that include via email? Is this some sort of weird test?”

Then I think about email and how easy it has made even staying connected with your child and the host parents at a sleepover.

On the ride over, I asked my daughter if she still stayed in touch with a friend who had moved out of town.

She said, “Not as much, Mom. Email just takes so long. It would be easier if she texted or face-timed. Then it would be instant.”

I told her I remember having to write letters and buy stamps.

She shook her head.

“What’s a stamp? Like one of those sticker-thingies?”

Yeah, it’s like a sticker-thingy.

Have fun at your sleepover. Be sure to face-time us. Just not after 9pm.

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