UP AND RUNNING

“I was sure hoping I could.” I grumbled as I started to type again.“I can’t do it!” I cried as my son, Alex tried to talk me through creating a web page.

“You can!” Alex patted me on the shoulder as he stood next to me. “You just have to believe in yourself.”

“You know I’m computer challenged!” I cried. I was sitting on the couch feeling frustrated as I scrolled through the directions. “I don’t understand why you can’t just do it for me?” I kept typing. “You set up my old blog account.”

“That was five years ago.” He was reading the directions on the web page. “You’ve come so far in your computer skills.”

“No I haven’t!”

“Yes you have.” His calm soothing voice was beginning to get on my nerves. “What do you think you should do next?” he asked.

I sighed as I held onto the computer mouse and ran it around the screen. “Okay, I’m going to guess I should click where it says to continue?”

Alex leaned over my shoulder again. “See? You can do this!”

“I hate when you make me learn how to do these things instead of just doing them for me.” I looked over at him. “What if I make a mistake?”

“What’s the worst that can happen?”

“My entire site crashes, I lose all my posts and I can never find them again?” Just the thought of that was making my heart race.

Alex patted my shoulder again. “Don’t worry. You have everything backed up on your computer.”

“I do?”

Alex looked concerned for a moment. “Don’t you?”

I threw my hands up. “I have no idea!” I cried.

“Okay, let me check.” Alex took the computer from me and began clicking keys. “Just what I thought. It’s saved to your Google drive.” He handed me back the computer. “There’s nothing to worry about.”

“Easy for you to say.” I settled back into the couch and began typing again. “How am I suppose to transfer all my posts from the old site to my new site?” I said. “Am I going to have to copy each one?” I sighed again. “This is going to take forever!” I looked at Alex hoping the pleading look on my face would have him taking the computer from me and just setting me up.

“Here let me help.” He leaned over my shoulder again and pointed to the screen.

“Yeah!” I couldn’t help but smile.

“Just press new tab.” he instructed.

I was nodding my head as I did what I was told. “Okay.”

“Now I want you to go to Google.”

“Okay.” I was so relieved that he was just going to walk me through it.

“Now type in ‘How do I transfer…’”

“Oh, come on!” I cried. “Are you serious?”

Alex started to laugh. “You can do this.” he reassured me again. “You can’t spend the rest of your life computer challenged.”