Oh, and did you hear the big news? Emma, aka "the last 12-year old on earth without a cell phone," got the cell phone she's been hoping and praying and begging for since she started middle school. We got her a phone and took a picture of ourselves holding a sign that said "Happy Birthday" and made that the photo that came up on her screen when her phone rang from home. Then we hid the phone on the bookshelf behind her Christmas stocking. Near the end of her party, we called the phone and she figured out it was for her...priceless!

It was only then that we realized that the piddly 300 texts a month we added to her account was going to cause serious financial problems for us as she immediately received more than 10 texts from people...people who were still with her at the party!!
Today, we promptly changed our plan to unlimited texts.

Oh dear...here we go...