Contacts

As all children her age, Julia is very technology proficient. She has my old phone where she plays all of her apps. In fact she recently organized everything into the following folders: Stuff I Like, Learning, Selfies, Fun, Old Games, Good Games, and Not My Stuff. Of late, she has been really interested in the Contacts, specifically who gets in and why. She asked me the other day if the kids had her daddy entered as Uncle Bobby. I thought probably so and told her as much.

This past Friday morning she and I are eating breakfast together and talking about who she is playing with at recess and such. She has always said that she and I would be best friends always. In a flippant and whimsical way I said, "You still are going to be my best friend always, right?" "Of course," is her reply without hesitation. And then there is a pause and she looks down. "Well," she says, "I did promise Tia that I'd put her in my contacts."