Her class is about half over now, since it’s only a 3 hour class two days a week. It felt so odd dropping her off there, but she took it very calmly. She wasn’t too happy when some of the other kids got to the paints before she did, but that’s a good lesson.

It was so hard for me to leave her! I didn’t let her see that I was nervous, since I didn’t want her to be nervous. Seems to have worked, but we’ll see what she says when I pick her up.

I was reading about preschool prep on a forum, and one mother was declaring that preschool was nothing more than glorified daycare, and any mother too lazy to raise her own children shouldn’t have them. She had almost no sympathy for circumstance.

I just can’t agree with her. Ariel is in preschool because that is where she wants to be. She is not there to keep her out from underfoot or because I can’t teach her the basics, she is there because I think it is something she will enjoy and it gives her time to be with other kids and have fun. It will also give her some practice in how to behave at school, which, given how headstrong my darling daughter is, is probably a very good thing, lol.

Ariel already knows her ABCs, can count to at least 20, knows her colors and shapes and some of the states, all things she has chosen to learn without any pushing on my part. My biggest fear about sending her to school isn’t how she’ll cope, but will she be bored because she knows so much already?

I finally have things running more or less smoothly here. It took some work, and the bookstore will have to be completely reindexed, but it was worth it!

It seems like time has just been flying by lately. Ariel starts preschool this week and Gage needs to get started on solids. Some days it seems like I turn around and my husband is coming home from work.

I’m trying to get better about planning my days. Sure, it’s fun reading on discussion boards, and I often learn something, but how much more time would I have for site development if I spent less time on discussion boards? I try to regularly look at which ones are merely a waste of time and find times to read on them when I can’t effectively do other work, such as when I’m nursing Gage, although he’s starting to insist on more eye contact during feedings right now, so even then isn’t the best of times.

Given my tendency to always want to add more sites or more features to existing sites, it’s hard to get everything done in a day that I would like. Now that I have things running well enough here, I’m shifting my focus back to my jewelry site to finish getting it ready for Christmas. It’s mostly there, but I’m refining the pages I made for it so they are more focused. Hopefully that site will do well for me this year. Then there’s the temptation to work on more strictly sales sites, and see how many I can get indexed before the Christmas rush. Then there’s the new work at home scam section I’m working on for this site.

As I said, I need to plan my time better. Some of it is prioritizing, some of it is just getting things done more efficiently.

Looks like pretty much everything is working now except the discussion boards. I keep getting an error in the database, so I posted to tech support. Hopefully they can help me make sense of it.

I switched out the bookstore program I was using for one I think is better. Now I just need to customize it and update any links I have to individual items in my site. Means it all has to get reindexed by the search engines, of course, but that’s ok.

I’m making the move to what should be this site’s home for some time to come. Things are looking good, and I’ve tested everything that I can test before the domain name propagates… which isn’t quite everything, but hopefully will be enough.

I finally decided to go ahead and just move the site again. At least this time I won’t have to struggle to remember how to do it. I’m not dropping the Dreamhost hosting completely, however. It’s still good hosting even if it doesn’t allow certain things, which means that running my Amazon bookstore on it is impossible, but some of my other sites don’t have such needs, and I’ve been thinking about moving them anyhow. So I may as well use this hosting for them.

It may be a day or two before I start the move itself. I’m going to try to have everything in place this time before I move so that I don’t have trouble like I did this last time. Save myself a lot of stress that way. I’m getting everything in place for a much smoother transition.

This new host has Fantastico installed, which I had never dealt with before. I’m loving how it looks, however; very promising and it’s giving me ideas. Lots of new toys in that panel!

Days like this I wonder how I will ever keep up with the flow of ideas. But that’s a good thing.