A Dusting of the Cobwebs: New Phone...

A Dusting of the Cobwebs....

welcome to my blog!
...allow me a brief introduction...

In a reacent conversation with my daughter, her questions were why I, and her Dad were so quiet about our lifes? Meaning writing or telling about our own personal historys.

I didn't think there was anything important to write about. As I was just a normal person, getting up in the morning and getting the day started, getting kids off to school, or meeting schedules of the whole family, cleaning house, and landry. Keeping little ones busy, and changing diapers, comming home fixing dinner, helping with homework, putting kids to bed, watch some news, go to bed. And then do it all over again the next day. Then some days was teaching lessons in Primary, RS, MIA, Sundayschool, cub scouts, or helping at schools, ect. Family home evening, Visiting teaching, and even some Home teaching and being the family schaefer. most of the time we had one car, 6 kids, one working husband. Oh yes, the multi years of music lessons, and baseball teams, coaching, and even one major jumproap champion, for one daughter.

We had trials too. some were very hard, just thinking about a single memory of losing our son, brings tears. But we are told that this life is to meet trials, and how we handle them will be for our own eternal growth.

A very wise Stake President, President Alred, once said "We are here to be schooled in the principles of eternity. We will work by the sweat of our brow, to work our way through this life... But remember we are here to be schooled in the principles of eternity."

So, I welcome you to my blog. Please feel free to stay and go as you please, and wander where you wish. And, as always, feel comfortable in sharing those stories that you may feel are just "an every day" thing as well...

Jul 10, 2014

New Phone...

I have had the blessing of being on my daughters cell phone plan this last year, she calls our phone a brick phone, because it only talks and text. Our phone company, Cricket, merged with another company and upgraded. Meaning our brick phones would not be working in about a month. They offered us a new Smart Phone at a very low price, and to stay on the same family plan.

What a nice Surprise.....Its like having a small computer in your hand. Never thought I would ever have one...They are too expensive to buy, and the plans are too expensive for me. So this is a real treat.. I so appreciate Pauli and James working with us....Oh Yes Lynn has one too!

Growing up, our family phone was a Dial Telephone, with a wire to the wall. At least four party's, or houses on one line. You would lift the receiver and lessen to see if anybody elts was talking. If not you waited for the dial tone, then dialed the number you wanted, or you could call the operator for help.

I remember when Mom and Dad finally got a private line.. it was just for us to use. No noisy neighbors lessening to what we were talking about. No wonder TV shows have fun with the old country phones, and gossiping getting out, on a party line, that's the way it use to be.

Some one thought it would be a great idea to put a phone in a car. A phone on a wire from the handset to the receiver. It Worked, Expensive, a Novelty, Cumbersome, and very few of them. Then came the Brick size early cell phone, like the one they used in the army.

Phones kept getting smaller, and better....As a young mother I thought the ladies were crazy taking a phone with them when they had to drive somewhere....it seemed to me that was the only quiet place I had, ...to be away from the house, and phone for a hour or two....I didn't see the logic of taking the confusion with me all the time...

People are getting away from land lines (phones attached to houses) and just carrying their own cell phones.
Well here I am....My time has changed... and I am Carrying a Smart Phone in my pocket....too!

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A Dusting of the Cobwebs