Eclipsed

I watched the moon turn red behind the earth's shadow last night. Stayed up until 3:40 am. First solstice lunar eclipse since... 1638 or so. Not like it's much different than any other lunar eclipse, but still cool.

I promised the kids I'd wake them up. They groaned when I whispered to them that it was 3:20 am. They plodded downstairs, looked up, grunted, and went back to bed. Sigh.

Beep beep.

The sound of the boy's cell phone, beeping in his own voice, alerting him that he has a new text waiting.

Beep beep.

All day long, every day. My son is suddenly popular.

The girl got a cell phone this year for Chanukah too. Remembering when the boy got his. We just turned on his texting this year.

And now the girl has a boy that "wants to go out with her". I'm not sure to do with this information. She is ten, and she's my baby. I'm not sure she knows what to do with this information either.