Framing

Well, I gave my pictures to Ben Franklin to have custom framed. It will be a couple of weeks before I get them to hang in my living room. Oh well...at least they are getting done finally. :-)

I went to the bank today. We started a 5 year dedicated savings account for River with the $225 we have saved for her in the last two years. Her birthday money and $10 a paycheck have gone into a savings account until now, and we moved it all over today. We will just keep putting it in each of the highest yield dedicated savings accounts each time they end. But she will be 7 when this one closes! Wow, that will be crazy. We plan on opening a savings account for Molly next month too. The goal is to do the savings for each of our children...and since it is in something we can't pull money out of there is no temptation for us to use it either. haha! When they are old enough to earn money for themselves we plan on matching fifty cents for each dollar that they put into their savings (up to $1000/year). They have to continually have an increase in their account balance at the end of each year to keep the money we matched with though. So, they can't spend any of it. When they are 18 the money is totally theirs. But, with the stipulation that they spend it on something important like schooling. I think it will be a great way to encourage them to save their money and use it wisely.

I don't know what to do today...maybe something crafty.