Let Me Explain

If you made it here, congratulations for finding me during this transition.  Let me explain why I’ve moved from my old site of www.hesowsshesews.com to www.hesowsandshesews.com.

Well, let me go way back to when I first started this blog.  I told Knut I wanted to start a family blog, and I didn’t have a google account at the time.  He said I should register for one using his email.  I told him it would be easy for me to sign up myself, but he insisted that he wanted us to share this blog.  (I laugh at this insistence, because I can’t get him to post anything for here unless I give birth to someone.)

So I signed up using his email.  Later, it got tedious, and I got my own google account, and added myself as an admisitratrator. By that time, I had already purchased the domain for the blog, and set it up to automatically renew every year.

Well, what happened was this year, when it was supposed to renew, it was using an old credit card that I had not updated, and it shot out an message to Knut’s email that renewing the domain name failed and we had a few days to renew it or it would go on the open market.

That email arrived in Knut’s inbox right about the time we were in and out of the hospital before Solveig was born, and he was doing his job, as well as all of my jobs.  He didn’t have much computer time.

So as you can see, we let it lapse, and my domain went on the open market, and someone in Russia snatched it up.  No kidding.  I tried to buy it back from the new owner, but it was kind of like dealing with “Peggy” from the Capitol One commercials.  Then a lot of hiccups started in the blog, and I decided that I would fix the problem by getting a new domain, as confusing as it is.

So I’m sorry for the confusion.  If you’re one of the nice people who link to my blog, be sure to change the link.  Those who follow the blog should be able to find it quickly, as google just forwards them onto the new domain.  Many links are currently broken, and it’s supposed to be “funny” for 3 days or so.  At that point I’ll see what’s left to be fixed, and try to work it out. 

Thanks for being patient with our oversight, and hopefully this won’t happen again!