Birthday Week

This week is my birthday week.  I'm turning 25, again.  :-) 

My students from last year come to visit me most mornings.  They always seem to find a way to sneak out of the breakfast line and make it to my room.  I don't mind.  I love that they love me.  I love that they still want to see me.  Someday, they will run the other way when they see me because I was their teacher. 

Back to the point, my last years kiddos remembered that my birthday was at the beginning of the year last year so they have been driving me crazy asking me when my birthday is.  So, I told them.  This has resulted in a classroom countdown to Mrs. Wix birthday.  I don't really mind because I think it's adorable that they care about my birthday, but it's a daily reminder that I'm getting OLD! 

I'm getting so old that my kids made fun of my actual birthday.  You see, we do DOL sentences everyday.  The other day I put the following sentence on the board and asked the kids to correct it:

u wuz borned on september 20 1984

Now, they recognized all the errors and corrected this sentence, but one little boy raised his hand and said, "Man, whoever was born in that year  must be like 50 or something."  Hmmm?  50?  Not quite!

I told him he failed for the day.  (Only not really!)

I then told my kids that I could remember a day without cell phones.  A day when facebook didn't exist.  Nor did Twitter.  Heck, we didn't even have the Internet!  Honestly, when I was a kid we didn't even have a computer!  I told them our phones use to have cords.  I told them we use to look things up in BOOKS, not computers.  I also told them that our cartoons rocked, and that we played outside!

Then I realized that they couldn't comprehend the world I was talking about.  They literally can't picture life without facebook, or computers, or cell phones.  They think the life I described is so long ago.  But really, it isn't!  (Right?)

Is anyone else out there amazed at the "stuff" that is out there?  The technology is almost frightening.  The fact that you don't need to "memorize" things anymore because they are a google search away, and no need to go home and get on your computer...you can look it up on your IWhatever right then and there!! 

Anyway, tomorrow I'll be saying happy three year anniversary to turning 25!