Yesterday was my daughters 13th birthday, and what a joyous occasion it was. The weekend before her birthday we celebrated with her friends by taking them out bowling and then out to eat. That was a lot of fun, and we gave her one of her birthday presents, a digital camera, so she could take pictures of her friends while they hung out. Well yesterday, on her actual birthday, me and my wife had one more surprise for her, her own cell phone.

We had given her one of our old cell phones to use, and only use on a limited basis. This was to make sure that she would not loose it and would not abuse it. Well she accomplished to adhere to 75% of this. She did not abuse the phone and she did not loose it until this summer, when she was not using it at all. I figured that if we actually let her use the cell phone like all other kids, for texting and a main life line, then she would not lose it at all. So we made the plunge and decided to get her a phone on our plan. Now that she has her own phone, me and my wife both have phones, it is time to retire the Time Warner Cable VoIP phone that we have been using. The TWC VoIP phone cost us about $50 a month. Since everyone in the house has there own phone, I am canceling that bad boy now. I hope that this does not come to bite me in the ass, but only time will tell.