Happy birthday to Wilma

Today is Wilma's 9th birthday.  Last Sunday we were just gathered for a family birthday cake.

I remember when my sister's daughter Ulrika called my mother on the phone when she (Ulrika …) was the same age as Wilma.  Half of the time of these calls was consumed by my mother saying variations of the phrase “I think we must stop now – otherwise it will be very expensive.”

Today we called Wilma using FaceTime without any fear of additional costs. We could use as much time as we wanted to have a close chat with her.  She lives some 200 km’s away from us but in a way she sits in her grandmother’s knee.  It was not always better in the old days…