The best present ever!

As the parent of an almost teen this last Christmas I was stuck as to what to buy my daughter. Surely she would hate just about anything she received from me. So I thought long and hard and decided to get her a cell phone. We added her to our plan and gave her unlimited text messages. She is like most other kids that age, and some grown-ups, and constantly is texting. You know the look, head down, thumbs moving a mile a minute and short grunts for response to any conversation you might be trying to have with them. She LOVES her phone, she has not once gone over her minutes-but that's because I don't think she has ever once called anyone but me-it's only used for texting. Somehow, even though it has to be turned off at night and she didn't use it at school, she managed to send/receive on average 12,000 (yes that is 12K!) a month. Does she text each letter individually? What's going on? With school being out for summer I am a little more relaxed about the putting the phone away at night thing. This is what I found a few days ago when I went in her room to say goodnight.


I think I finally got one right! She seems to be a bit attached to this gift. Maybe we should have gotten her a hamster?
By the way, she is going to KILL ME when she sees this post. I love being a mom. ;)