Weigh in on programs, child tech, and our renovation!
Tremendous large bubbles of concepts!
New Course Concepts
I’ve been toying with the concept of constructing some new programs in subjects I’m captivated with: well being and residential organizing.
Enjoyable truth: once I dreamed up the Digital Muddle Course, I had actually needed to do a house organizing one first. However it felt a bit too overwhelming and never area of interest sufficient on the time, so I made a decision to focus in on simply the digital matter.
Now that I’ve constructed and marketed one course with success, I really feel extra assured in doing it once more!
I might like to gauge curiosity in these two subjects:
Prioritize Your Well being:
If you happen to as soon as had been health-focused however life obtained in the best way, this course will enable you to shift your psychological area on getting again to wholesome. Refresh your data on vitamin fundamentals, be taught strategies for intuitive and conscious consuming, and prepare to prioritize your well being once more with like-minded girls.
I’m imagining this course to have two tiers: a inexpensive self-guided content material that covers a breadth of subjects after which an add-on group / group teaching / live-taught facet within Kajabi Communities.
I’d love to listen to your curiosity in every stage.
Dwelling Neat Dwelling:
Declutter and manage your house prime to backside. Use strategies to go room by room and declutter, simplify, type, and manage. After you will have organized, implement techniques to make your family run like a well-oiled machine. Actually this course would possibly come later in 2023 or 2024.
If you’re fascinated with certainly one of these or each, and they’re one thing you’d pay for, please decide in right here.
Gizmo vs. Apple Watch vs. iPhone vs. Gabb
I believe I’ve written earlier than that Mazen has a Gizmo Watch. It’s a Verizon product that’s about $79 to purchase and $9 a month for the telephone line. The evaluations are usually not glowing general, however it has been an excellent starter look ahead to us. He’s had it for 3 years now.
I actually like the flexibility to trace him by way of GPS and name or textual content him if wanted when he’s out within the neighborhood or staying to play Gaga after college. He’s additionally capable of name us when he’s at his dad’s home and vice versa.
Mazen’s Gizmo is working on its final leg, and I’m undecided we’d purchase one other one when this one bites the mud.
Communication and Monitoring are extra for me than for him
At age 10, Mazen has been wanting extra freedom to do issues with out dad and mom: stroll to highschool, stroll to the downtown mall along with his pals, play across the neighborhood, and go for bike rides within the neighborhood.
At this level, we really feel that having some sort of GPS and textual content/name machine is turning into essential not a lot for him however for us. It’s an enormous peace of thoughts for me. So I’ve been debating choices for potential Christmas presents.
Numerous his pals have began getting telephones
Earlier than you roll your eyes that I’m going at hand a ten 12 months previous a model new iPhone with social media – please know that not the plan! His pals who’ve telephones have older generations and plenty of parental controls, no social media, and many others. That might be our plan too.
I had one other mother of Mazen’s pal inform me that she regarded into pay as you go choices, flip telephones, and many others. however including her children to her Verizon plan and getting them previous iPhones was the perfect steadiness of GPS and use-ability for her.
I really feel {that a} watch could be the simplest for him to hold round, however a telephone (in an Otterbox) would allow him to do primary images and Facetime when he isn’t at our home. I fear he would break it or neglect it at house!
The Apple parental controls are incredible and we’re an all-Apple Home
We use the parental controls on Mazen’s iPad, and I’m able to monitor app exercise, set display screen deadlines, and switch off all apps at a sure time. He’s additionally unable to obtain new apps or make purchases with out approval from my account. So I’ve been leaning towards getting an iPhone.
I’ve been researching the brand new Apple Watch SE (it’s marketed nearly as good for youths) vs. an older iPhone vs. another choice like Gabb wi-fi.
I might love to listen to from dad and mom of preteens and youths in case you have any recommendation!
Renovation Replace!
This isn’t a lot a query however an replace on our house renovation! (Learn this publish to get the context.)
We’ve been going forwards and backwards with our architect, Ruth Ellen Outlaw of Outlaw Design, for months. We FINALLY have selected a structure for our first flooring.
We thought we had one after which after we plugged these plans right into a 3D program we nearly began from scratch.
The primary model of our plans additionally had a storage shed on the entrance of the home (the entrance left nook of the storage) however that has now been vetoed in favor of a much bigger pantry and a real mudroom nook.
Many of the issues we retailer within the storage could be unfold out within the different storage areas of our home, together with a small gardening and power shed within the yard.
The one puzzle piece I haven’t discovered but is the place to throw all of the cardboard packing containers that come within the mail!
Right here’s the newest structure for the primary flooring:
Right here’s the issue we’re attempting to resolve:
On a regular basis “mudroom” chaos!
3D of the brand new kitchen
Consider me, I can’t be utilizing these barstools, haha. And naturally this can be a primary program so the kitchen is not going to be grey with brown counters. Search for spacial design solely!
And right here’s a screenshot of my Pinterest board. Assume trendy farmhouse with muted coastal colours. We’re planning to start out March 1!!
Ship me your greatest renovation suggestions!
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