So I had the disheartening experience this evening of finding out that someone had helped themselves to a good chunk of cash out of my son’s piggy bank in his nursery. I had been putting all the money he received from grandparents etc. in cards into his piggy bank and no one knew it was there except me. The mystery is that the only people that have been in my son’s room since the money was put there other then my husband and I have been his previous nanny (who has left us) and our housekeepers who have been off for the past 2 months. Continue Reading ->

Have you swore that you’ll go to bed early, only to find yourself sitting at your computer past midnight wondering where the evening went. It seems that as time goes on, we’re getting much less sleep then we used to.

How much is enough? If you ask me, I would say about 9 hours. My husband would say about 5 hours and my 14 month old son would say about 14 hours in increments of 50 minutes.

There is never enough time in the day to get everything done, people racing around and caffeine at every corner. It’s only natural that we push ourselves to the limits, or is it?

How Much Sleep Do We Really Need?

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Ok. so I’ve spent the past 5 days wasting time to get Inside Out, Upside Down configured on my new hosting server. I had to migrate all of my accounts from an old server which ran FreeBSD to a new shared hosting server on Solaris. Among the migration was a whole new structure of user names, directories and passwords. None of which migrated without change. Of course not everything changed, only a few really key specifics that have caused me much grief. My biggest grief…. my hosting companies documentation. Now, I believe I’m a fairly intelligent person, I’ve got a solid computer science background and I can read directions. With that being said, it should be reasonable to assume that I should have had no problems making the changes and installing everything on the new server. I’ve done many installs of Wordpress before so I’m pretty familiar with the ins and outs. Sadly this was not the case.

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