Source: anthropologie.com via Daphne on Pinterest
A random adorable shoe
I don’t normally post on a Saturday morning but I wanted to say Hello. My blog has been in the midst of switching hosts the last two days hence no posts. Big props to Jason for helping me out. He and his wife are the ones that took over OTHBlog from me and he’s been trying to convert my other sites for quite some time.
For you bloggy, techy folks, I switched from a dedicated server on Surpass to Dreamhost VPS. At peaks, the dedicated server would not hold up and it costs roughly 5 times as much as Dreamhost. I hear it’s been working well for OTHBlog so we’re gonna see! I think they have a Halloween special and you can get an entire year’s worth of hosting for $9.24. No affiliate link there, just a friendly FYI. Not that affiliate links aren’t friendly, but you know.
It’s probably been a good two days not to post as we were super busy with no time to post. Thursday night we had some family pictures made to use on the Christmas card. Oh, and speaking of, since the blog was down, I emailed the winners from the giveaway. Congrats again to Jo Ann, Liz and Nichole! After our photo session, we went to Beef and Brady’s to eat with my parents and then went home to quickly do homework and hit the hay.
Last night the girls and I had errands to run and ended up at Target. The girls are coming up on their birthdays quickly and had gotten some gift cards to Target as gifts so of course they couldn’t wait to go spend it. Since I’ve been cracking down on the toy-buying around here and they have to use chore money, buying just any toy they wanted was a huge deal. And it was quite interesting watching them work out the math. Emma, who had been begging me for colored dry erase markers saw they were $10 and said she didn’t want to spend her money. I asked her why, if she was just begging me to buy them she wouldn’t buy them and she said, yeah, but that was your money. Aha! Lexi put down a toy that would have cost all her money and chose 3 smaller ones. We still ended up with Squinkies in the house but at least it seems they are finally figuring out the value of money.
Today we are supposed to go to the Renaissance Festival. It’s rainy and cold here though so I’m not sure if it’s going to happen. I guess we’ll see and I’ll report in my Weekend Recap on Monday. See you then!