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I cant say enough about computers and modern tec. i tell you this much i am so glad my grandson came to me before his ma and family moved out of state and said " grandma get on line so we can keep in touch." and that began my hunt for a way to do so. At frist i hooked up webtv because i had no understanding of what it took to put a computer on line. and i sat there for two years waiting patiently for my grandsons and their ma to get on line too during which i got to know alot of wonderful people across this nation and world too and stuck up alot of friendships. i leanred alot on that old webtv but before my son had gone into the navy one of my sisters called and said i have this computer that i want to give you we need a computer with more space . i asked if it could be put on the net and she said yes it can so i went down and got it. now by that time i had one of the grandsons back here and living with me and he and my son had decided just where this computer was going and how it was going to be hooked up and the works. so that was it they went out to the art table i had and took everrything off it and placed the pc there and that was it all my art work found a new home and this area has become the pc room totally.
anway, i love email i like the fact i dont have to wait two weeks to a month to get a reply out of anyone i send something too. though sometmes some people are very busy and you dont get one out of them anyway LOL but i learned to ask for this has been read things from those that do that . that way i know they got what i sent .
once my son was on a base we asked him about email of course get this family hooked up right away is what i thought. im and email became very very important to me. and this began a site on line in msn where i began to store pictures for him so he could take part in family events and holidays and the like and if he couldnt make it home he could go there and spend time checking out what the family did. and all that . at first when i started it... it was just him and me. and then it grew to all the family members in 5 diffrent states joining in to place photos to share with him and has grown and kept going . each month we place family events on one page and anyone having a birthday or anniversary or a new baby or a wedding what ever the case may be can log on line and leave a message and tell our one gal ( my oldest daughter in another far far away state ) about it and she makes a lovely page for that event so all now can come on and sign a congrats page for those events.
it didnt take long and we dicovered that if our son had a computer of his own he could hook it up on base and not have to seek out a pc and wait to use it. so the family passed the hat around and got ahold of dell and bought him a nice lap top for christmas the the first year he was gone. i tell you what for a few years that lap top was a life line not only for him but for all of us . now being mom i am not hurt by the fact that i know he spent alot of time on line talking to his older brothers and his sisters and i got very little time with him . but that was ok for me at least he was talking to someone. if i wanted to know something all i had to do was ask.
but the arrival of the pc for our son made a huge change in how we communicated. now instead of letters by the dozen in the snail mail we sent alot of emails of course his were short and sweet and to the point and everyone in our family that knows me knows if ma emails you or writes you a snail mail letter get out the coffee and either sit and read it or print it off first and then read it because i can sure go on and on and write books for them all LOL
personally i was glad to get away from penning a letter which took alot of space on a piece of paper and well i didnt have to buy so dang many stamps . but i kept sending the post cards for awhile more not so many but i sent them.
i think now looking back i would advise mothers to encourage your children to write not so much letters but personal journals . write about feelings and about events and anything else . but learn to write. you see during the worst parts of the war and the beginning of it all i happened on... on line blogs of solders and their families and i kept up with reading those and found out later on the ones that wrote as much as they could came home the better for it all emotionally. that is why i say teach your kids to write.