The REAL Social Network

It finally happened.  The MIL not only ventured out on her own to the mailboxes (which she has proudly been doing for about a month now) but she hung out on the bench there while she waited for Jonathan to pick her up one day.  While there it happened.  That's right the Senior Citizen version of social networking happened...the MIL met one of her neighbors that was coming to get mail as well.  It happened to be her next door neighbor so it was a big score!  I think the real lesson learned here is that Social Networking has been around a long time...much longer than MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook....just checking your mail, making yourself available to others, greeting people with a smile.  I guess that a good lesson to learn from the MIL is that we can still network the old-fashioned way by just talking to people...in person!