Good Old Maivs Beacon!

Well hello to all my loyal blog readers! So my mom is taking a computer class at the career service institute in Helena, and during this class they learn all of Microsoft Office. They also learn how to type faster and be more computer literate. So when I was home on Sunday, I walked pass the fridge and hanging on it were two certificates for completing Mavis Beacon that my mom had received. This made me laugh and think about just how different the technology was for my parents growing up and for me growing up. I hadn’t heard of Mavis Beacon since I used it in the third grade, which was eleven years ago. Another thing that made me laugh while I at home was that my mom finally realized just how much homework you can have even if you have only one class that day. She found this out because the computer class that she is taking has some homework. Before, she just couldn’t believe that I was in the library for three hours even though it was for just one of my classes. Now tonight my mother and I exchanged many calls from our cell phones. She was calling me because she couldn’t get her memory stick to work, and I was calling her for instructions on how to make tacos for dinner. I was getting frustrated with her because she couldn’t explain what she was doing, it was hard to give directions without seeing her computer, and because this was stuff we learned in middle school. She was telling me that it was the same for her by her giving me directions for cooking tacos. Ms. Abigail came down to Butte on Saturday after she got off work, and we went to the Land of Magic for our Valentine’s dinner, which was so darn good we each couldn’t finish our dinners. Then yesterday we went to Helena and stayed the night and then came back this afternoon. She will be going home tomorrow early in the morning. Well everyone, I will check back in during the middle of the week to give a couple shout outs! Have a GREAT WEEK!!!!!!