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"One of the few perks that comes with my newly defined job (now that my coworker has left) is that they&amp;#039;ve assigned me an iPhone. I guess I can retire my seven year old cellphone with the battery that only holds a charge for two hours (and doesn&amp;#039;t even take pictures!) and join the twenty-first century with the rest of you. Along with the phone comes unlimited data and text usage, which I don&amp;#039;t plan to need much, but it&amp;#039;s turned out to be awfully nice to have. Since Anna already has an iPhone, courtesy of her Dad, she uses it to text me from upstairs. &amp;quot;What time is dinner? Are you making pasta, or what?&amp;quot; and my personal favorite from the weekend: &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re not really making me do my own laundry, are you?&amp;quot; And now there&amp;#039;s one other big perk - I can facetime or text David whenever he wants to talk to me. He has an iPod touch that he got for Christmas last year, and since you can text or FaceTime from any i-device to any other i-device via Wi-Fi, he can now dial me up and chat with me (or better yet, practice texting and by default, writing) anytime he gets lonely at his Dad&amp;#039;s house again. He doesn&amp;#039;t have to wait for Anna to call me, either. We practiced and he can do it all himself. Of course, my friends can now text me easily and they&amp;#039;ve been doing so all weekend.  Lunch date on Wednesday? YES. FINALLY. You&amp;#039;d better not back out, girl! I&amp;#039;m texting you to make sure you went! Who is he? Tell me all about him! This is BIG. But don&amp;#039;t get freaked. It&amp;#039;s just lunch. Yeeesh.  And for the record, I haven&amp;#039;t backed out. Yet. Maybe we should just...text each other for awhile first. I&amp;#039;m starting to get the hang of it. And with the kids&amp;#039; help, I&amp;#039;ll be a pro by the time Wednesday rolls around. Has technology helped you stay in touch with your kids more now that you&amp;#039;re divorced? [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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