House Phone

This week Emmy’s preschool class was learning about the letter “N”.  Each day they have a lesson, do a craft, etc., and everything revolves around the letter “N”.  This week they were learning about phone numbers so we were asked to bring one in for her to memorize.  Huh.  Which number do we choose mine or Josh’s?   It got me thinking more about how this whole phone thing is going to work when she grows up?  When I was young, we had a single house phone so we had one number to remember and our friends always knew how to reach us.  What happens when Emmy and her friends grow up and they want to call each other to play?  Do they call the parent’s cell phones or is that when you are pretty much forced to buy them a cell phone?!  Believe it or not we actually still have a house phone.  We never answer it but I guess I am living in the dark ages and am having trouble letting go of the home phone and number we’ve had for over a decade.  Plus, I keep thinking that it’ll come in handy a few years from now when Emmy and her friends start talking on the phone – they can call our home phone!  Who and I joking, give it 5 years and I can just see the look on Emmy’s face when I tell her to use our portable home phone, I bet it’ll be a dinosaur by then!