Kate Olson is a mother of 2 toddlers and lives in rural Wisconsin. She balances motherhood & working from home in a semi-functional fashion - you can read more about Kate on our contributors page. She blogs about education and lots of business/tech stuff at Kate Says . Want more? Read all of Kate’s posts!

(cross-posted at Kate Says)

I just completed my ultra geeky mom certification today, I promise. No, it’s not an actual title, but it SHOULD be! I actually can’t believe I didn’t think of this earlier, but you can blame it on my late-start to the ultra tech world.

What did I do? I just bought domain names for my 1- and 2-year-old.

Yup, that’s right. I’m paying $9.95 per year to hold domain names for my kids until they’re ready to use them. And with me for a mom, they’ll be ready to use them sooner than later! I was kind of bummed that they didn’t have .com’s left for my kiddos’ names, but I did end up with .org’s which are good enough.

I actually plan to help my kids build their first sites when they get a bit older - I’m not going to use the domains to build them blogs right now where I blog about each kid, but want the domains to be used for sites THEY create eventually. I’m seriously not leaving the tech education of my children up to their schools, we’ll do this as a fun mom-kiddo activity.

They may not use these domain names for a few years, but my kids will be thanking me later…………they WILL, stop doubting me!

And yes, the total of my domain purchases this year is well over $100 - kind of cringeworthy, but buying them is addictive……..

Anyone else do this? Anyone? C’mon, I KNOW some of you did, since you told me about it on twitter!

I’m also excited because my .com name was FINALLY available and I just managed to grab it - yay!

Note: I bought the domains at DreamHost because I love DH’s easy install of WordPress for when I finally end up hosting something behind the names.