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Oh how nice, a message from my daughter on my cell phone.  Her sweet voice, leaves a short statement, 'Text me when you get this mom.'

Great... okay, let's see by the time I figure out how to get to that area on my phone, I could have dialed her number at least 3 or 4 times. 

Oh here it is, yep this new message window looks familiar, okay... here we go. How do I get her number in here again, oh forget it I'll just type it in...okay her number appears right, I'm feeling a slight sense of success at getting to move on to the body text...

That successful feeling short-lived.  I consider myself a fairly competent typist, so you'd think this texting thing should be a breeze.  Well, first, it wasn't meant for short, stubby fingers which can't zero in on just one key, second, I've concentrated so hard on making sure that I'm hitting the right keys, that when I look at the screen it looks something like this...

Hhya hndygmt yotrmssahe. wgatss up.

WOW, I've invented a whole new language!  Okay, delete, delete, delete.. but I'm not a quitter so here we go again...

Hit the ghi key twice... ghi key again 3 times now, hit the wxyz key, 3 times, and hit the abc key once... Hiya, magically appears in my text window.  Let's see that only took 10 minutes... guess I'll muddle through.

Thirty-five minutes later, finally I hit the send key!  I'm exhausted!  I managed to get off 4 full sentences, mentioning how much I love her, miss her and how much I appreciate her checking in.

 Literally thirty seconds elapse and my phone beeps indicating I have a message, yikes already.  Her text reads... luv u 2 mom!  No long sentences, no grammatically correct punctuation, not even full words, but sweet sentiment just the same. 

Looks like I need to learn the lingo or lose the stubby fingers!