It's February 10th.  Today we start into another round of grandchildren birthdays.  From now on, one and then another and another will have their birthdays, until we get to December.  And finally the eleventh birthday will be celebrated.  It's like this every year.  

But today a certain very special young lady turned seven years old.  We arranged with her Dad ahead of time to phone at 7 a.m. Sunday their time, which was 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon our time.  The ringing phone was quickly picked up and we heard a grandaughter's voice!  We had lots of fun talking with her.  Finally we asked her if she remembered us.  After all, she was only three years old when she last saw us.  "Yes, I remember you.  And we have a picture of you, too!" she sweetly informed us.  So we asked her if the grandma in the picture was real pretty.  "Yes."  And was the grandpa in the picture real handsome?  "Yes."  "Oh good!  That's us!!"  And we all laughed together.

In addition to talking with the birthday girl, we got to hear the voices of various and sundry other family members as everyone was rushing around getting ready for church.  And then we had a nice long talk with the birthday girl's Dad, who doubles as our Favorite Oldest Son.  Fifty-five minutes after we sang "Happy Birthday" to Sarah, we were saying "Good-bye" to Dan.  And it cost a grand total of zero dollars and zero cents!!!  The marvels of life in these modern times never cease to take our breath away.  How well we remember the early yeas when we had to send smoke signals across the Big Pond.  We've come a long ways. Long live modern technology!