My youngest grandchild will be celebrating his eighth birthday this month. In the age of COVID-19 celebrations are not the same as they once were. Of course, I’ve been buying gifts the last few weeks in preparation. That certainly hasn’t changed.

The usual six-hour drive and spending a couple nights at his house will probably not happen. That makes me very sad. What makes up for it (at least a little bit) is in this age of Skype, Facetime and Zoom I’ll be able to visit virtually.

In April his sister had a virtual birthday party with Zoom. I found out ahead of time you can create a background for your Zoom conference. I searched for a free image of birthday balloons to stand behind me during the call. I even bought cupcakes to eat while on the call as she cut into her real cake.

Since my grandson adores dinosaurs I’ve been searching for something suitable for the background. What do you think?

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