October 26 with Kaity

Saturday:  I was expecting to hear tons about the dance at the middle school last night--but Kaity had already "moved on" to other things! I think Kaity was with me almost four hours Saturday, and the entire time (other than about 5 minutes), she was on her phone talking to Tyler (who recently moved to Tennessee). They sounded like they were having a good time together, so I didn't protest, thinking that any minute Kaity would end the "conversation" and somewhat join me for a little bit. 

To be honest, much of time time Kaity and Tyler weren't actually talking. Kaity was listening to Tyler and his friends play a game of some sort and now and then, they would talk to each other. I have a difficult time relating to this at all since I am an old woman now and completely "out of it" when it comes to how young people communicate in 2024. I don't mind Kaity having her phone with her and checking out videos--and even playing games--she usually shares stuff with me that she finds interesting. But this was different, and I guess I have to admit that I felt sad about it. I'm not sure what I can say/do to actually spend time with Kaity instead of just being in the same room, cooking our hotdog supper, and then driving her back to Jesse; but I need to figure something out. 

Kaity does enjoy playing games. We do play UNO quite a bit--but even that has been awhile ago now. Perhaps I should just have a bunch of games ready before she gets here to see if I can entice her away from her phone for at least a little while. When I was recently in Grand Haven's cool toy store, I bought something called "trampoline pong" which is a smaller sort of ping-pong table with netting like a trampoline. Kaity and I HAVE played it, but it's hard to get use to the size of the table and get a good volley going. I'll have to get it back out and encourage her to learn the game with me. 

My heart is still sad thinking about Saturday's time with Kaity. Hmmm. I really need to plan ahead for this week, so that I feel I have at least offered something different for Kaity to do. Please help me to do this, Lord.