I arrived home from work, parked my car in the garage and bounced into the house ready to say hello to my two kids.  They had been home all day, hanging out, doing some small chores, relaxing, playing.   The sight that greeted me was slightly unusual.

Not only two kids greeted me, but three.  A friend of my sons was also at the house and they were all sitting quietly on the sofas.  As a mother, the first thing that comes out of my mouth is…

“What’s going on?”

The response isn’t what I expected.   What I got back was…

“Mom, we are waiting for UPS.”

What?  With a flash of memory, this all of a sudden made sense.  My son had ordered a new monitor for his computer.  Not just any monitor, but a

SAMSUNG TOC T260HD Rose Black 25.5″ 5ms HDMI Widescreen HDTV Monitor 300 cd/m2 DC 10000:1(1000:1) Built in TV Tuner & Dolby Digital Surround Sound.

Typically the UPS deliveries arrive at my house around noon, but not today.  Not when it is a delivery of very great importance!  They were waiting patiently for the truck to arrive. Actually, they were TRYING to wait patiently.

Not ten minutes after I arrived home…Ding Dong!  Bark Bark!   Door opens…there stands the valued UPS delivery driver, monitor in hand.   Oh the sheer look of excitement and joy on my sons face.  I’m sure that someday a girl will dream about seeing that same look when she arrives on his doorstep.  (O.K. a mom can dream a little too, but I think I’m getting ahead of myself!)

After much oohing and aahing, the troops head up to my sons “media center”  to set up the coveted monitor.  This room used to be referred to as a bedroom, but the bed was long ago replaced with the trappings of geekdom.   Hmmm…. I wonder when I will see my son again? Merry Christmas, son.

We are a family that totally ‘gets’ this technology thing. My sons Christmas present was a netbook, a fabulous little 9 inch laptop. Taking stock of all the computer and digital gadgets we have, we realize how much our worlds revolve around these tools that we can’t imagine living without. First up, is my daugters 17 inch laptop that she uses for college and to run her online business (toInvite.com), then the 12 inch laptop that I use for business, then my sons new 9 inch netbook, then my fabulous Sony ebook, then my Palm Treo, and then finally my sons cell phone. This photo does not take into consideration the desktop computer that I have had for several years, the desktop that my son got several years ago, and the desktop that my son took one year to build to his exact specifications. This appears to be an embarrassment of riches, but believe it or not, all of this equipment is actively used on a regular basis. (It appears that even the puppy wants in on the action!) What did we do before computers?