Weigh in on programs, child tech, and our renovation!
Tremendous huge bubbles of concepts!
New Course Concepts
I’ve been toying with the thought of constructing some new programs in subjects I’m captivated with: well being and residential organizing.
Enjoyable reality: after I dreamed up the Digital Litter Course, I had actually needed to do a house organizing one first. But it surely 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’d like to gauge curiosity in these two subjects:
Prioritize Your Well being:
When you as soon as had been health-focused however life received in the best way, this course will assist you shift your psychological house on getting again to wholesome. Refresh your information on vitamin fundamentals, study strategies for intuitive and aware consuming, and prepare to prioritize your well being once more with like-minded ladies.
I’m imagining this course to have two tiers: a cheaper self-guided content material that covers a breadth of subjects after which an add-on group / group teaching / live-taught side within Kajabi Communities.
I’d love to listen to your curiosity in every stage.
House Neat House:
Declutter and manage your private home prime to backside. Use strategies to go room by room and declutter, simplify, kind, and manage. After you may have organized, implement methods to make your family run like a well-oiled machine. Truthfully this course may come later in 2023 or 2024.
In case you are enthusiastic about certainly one of these or each, and they’re one thing you’ll 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 opinions aren’t glowing total, nevertheless it has been an ideal starter look ahead to us. He’s had it for 3 years now.
I actually like the power 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 in a position to name us when he’s at his dad’s home and vice versa.
Mazen’s Gizmo is operating on its final leg, and I’m unsure 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 mother and father: stroll to highschool, stroll to the downtown mall together with his mates, play across the neighborhood, and go for bike rides within the neighborhood.
At this level, we really feel that having some form of GPS and textual content/name machine is changing into needed not a lot for him however for us. It’s an enormous peace of thoughts for me. So I’ve been debating choices for doable Christmas presents.
Plenty of his mates have began getting telephones
Earlier than you roll your eyes that I’m going handy a ten yr previous a model new iPhone with social media – please know that not the plan! His mates who’ve telephones have older generations and plenty of parental controls, no social media, and so forth. That might be our plan too.
I had one other mother of Mazen’s buddy inform me that she appeared into pay as you go choices, flip telephones, and so forth. however including her youngsters 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 can be the simplest for him to hold round, however a telephone (in an Otterbox) would allow him to do primary pictures and Facetime when he isn’t at our home. I fear he would break it or overlook it at house!
The Apple parental controls are improbable 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 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 pretty much as good for youths) vs. an older iPhone vs. another choice like Gabb wi-fi.
I’d love to listen to from mother and father of preteens and youths you probably have any recommendation!
Renovation Replace!
This isn’t a lot a query however an replace on our house renovation! (Learn this submit 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 an even 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 bins that come within the mail!
Right here’s the most recent 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 cannot be utilizing these barstools, haha. And naturally it is 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 fashionable farmhouse with muted coastal colours. We’re planning to start out March 1!!
Ship me your finest renovation ideas!
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