Is 8 Enough?

I just heard about a brand new technology that anyone who deposits checks into bank accounts in the US would be interested in. It’s really quite neat. It’s called DepositNow and here’s how it works.

All you need is a check to deposit, a PC, and a scanner. From there, you pass your check through your scanner and it transmits to your bank electronically. All without stepping foot outside your home! Saving gas anyone? Yeah!

Anyway, it is not necessary to change banks. This can be done with your current bank as long as you are in the United States. The scanner that has been developed for this purpose retails for $225. Apparently this is about half the price of what a check scanner costs and this scanner for $225 can be used as a regular scanner too. That works!

This service isn’t priced on their site because you really need an individual business quote because the price depends upon how many checks you deposit per month. This service is not prohibitively priced, though. It’s affordable.

Here’s a bonus for both you and me: If you sign up for this online deposit service and enter Is8Enough as a promo code, you get $25 off the price of your scanner and I get $25 too! How cool is that???

I tell ya, the convenience and what you’d save in gas prices alone make this a very interesting idea. This is a little known service that more people should know about!

I know…I’m such a chicken. It literally took me weeks to work up the courage to upgrade my Wordpress. I waited initially because I was pretty sure there would be a bug fix coming shortly on the heels of 2.5 (and I was right!) but then when 2.5.1 went live I still couldn’t quite work up the guts. Finally two nights ago I took a deep breath…AND DID IT!

Guess what?!? Absolutely NO problems and now I’m just getting used to the differences. Wasn’t that bad at all!

It’s graduation season and the graduation invitations have started to trickle in. I have to say, I have seen some lovely ones this year. Graduation invitations have come a long way over the years.

It’s hard to imagine that a year from now it will be us shopping for invitations to Daniel’s graduation! Yikes! I’m not ready to think too hard about that yet.

I do know where I’ll head first, though. VistaPrint has proven themselves to me to be a trustworthy printing service that turns out consistent, quality work. VistaPrint offers a great selection of printing services. Go see them for business cards, checks, rubber stamps, announcements, and car magnets! Anything can be customized however you choose…you really can’t be unhappy with their work.

I ordered personal business cards about six months ago and I love them. They are pretty and functional and it’s so nice to have a supply of those in my purse when I need to give someone my information. It just seems classy. Much nicer than a wrinkled old receipt from the bottom of my purse (snicker).

I have to give VistaPrint two thumbs up as a great general printing service. They have served me well in the past and I expect they will in the future.

We’ve been busy around our house today.  The kids cleaned out the sandbox and the boys and I drove to the local ready-mix and got barrels and barrels of free sand.  Now Isaiah is in little boy heaven out in the backyard with his very own sandbox.

Now hubby is busy clearing out some old brush as long as the van is currently trashed with sand.  Might as well haul that stuff away before vacuuming it out.

I’m itching to get some pots planted next week - seems like spring is finally here!

Now that I have my new camera, items like photo cards have a new appeal to me. There are so many options for creating really cool and special cards, stationary, and even calendars!

I shared with you my favorite picture that I’ve taken so far. It was a week ago that I captured the sweet innocence of Abigail. This one is still the best I’ve done so far. So, as I was thinking photocards this morning, I thought immediately of this picture.

I would love to put this picture into a photo card like this:

I would have some lovely blank cards printed with this style and use them for general notes to use for various correspondence. Wouldn’t that be sweet?

These cards are completely customizable. You don’t have to go with the text that is shown in the examples on the site. What they have presented as a Christmas card would be very easy to make into a general card. You are free to make them exactly the way you want. The site is very easy to use and uploading pictures is a breeze. Go see what you can create! The prices are good and they’ve made this such an uncomplicated thing to do. Anyone would be proud to send out cards like this and your recipients would treasure receiving this kind of card.

Which way is the bus facing? Tough one, eh?

I’m guessing it wouldn’t surprise you to learn that most kids knew exactly which end was the front and which end was the back almost immediately.

Need help? I admit - I didn’t get this one.

The bus is facing to the left (front of bus on left end of bus on right). How do we know? There is no door visible, so it must be on the other side!

Smart little guys, huh?

I found a site this morning that sells number plates online for cars.

This site has an online platebuilder that you can use to customize a plate with lots of different badges, slogans, backgrounds, fonts, and borders. Of note: these are for ’show’ purposes only. You can make them very fancy, but they aren’t legal plates. This is just something fun and fancy to do to decorate your car! Go see the online platebuilder and see what you come up with!

I had Abby and Isaiah in the tub last night and I was letting them play a bit because everyone else was away at a ball practice. Earlier in the day I had attempted to quell the ever-growing “orphan sock” population in my laundryroom and I had an entire basket of newly paired socks that needed to be distributed to their rightful owners.

So…I was making my way through the laundry basket while those two happily played in the tub. Should have been a nice little scene…right? Well…remember, Isaiah is not quite 2. What do not-quite-two-year-olds do in the tub sometimes? YUP…he pooped. Suddenly, Abby is calling to me that Isaiah pooped. The tub looked like toilet water. Soooooooooo gross. Thankfully, there were not that many toys in the tub at the time.

So, I gave the kids a quick scrub down, got them out and dressed and got them busy in their room while I actually managed to clean the entire bathroom. One thing led to another and I just kept going.

The moral of the story…multi-tasking can be good and bad. In this case, I got most of my socks put away and got my entire bathroom clean. The bad part was that I had to deal with one of the more gross aspects of bathing children.

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Wanted to share a pic of new baby boy coming in October.  Isn’t he cute????  His Daddy is on top of the world, his mama is surprised and happy, and his big sister is relieved that her “Princess Position” will go unchallenged.