My parents didn’t really do anything interesting with food. I don’t blame them, I understand it. I fell into the same trap - we used to be so busy that we just put food on the table. we didn’t take the time to really think about what we were doing. like my parents, it was just something that we had to make and provide while we were working full time, but not something that we enjoyed doing and really gave too much thought. it was easy and convenient versus healthy, tasty and good for your family. it used to be hard to think about how to feed our family healthily.
Everything I do with food today I taught myself.
and we certainly do things differently than we did in the house I grew up in.
This is how we Tech: GoPro
The GoPro Hero 4 camera has been a game changer for us.
This little camera has completely rearranged the way that we look at photography.
We first bought it to record our daughter’s recovery from shoulder surgery, and we thought it would help her to be able to watch her own comeback. We had several trips upcoming and knew that it would get used for those as well.
We had no idea what we were to learn and what we would come to achieve with this little camera.
Best modern memory keeping device we have right now.
Best modern memory keeping device for our teens.
This is how we Tech: Social Media
We’re not like other families.
we have some pretty strict rules around social media.
which might be kind of weird to most people who’ve read our posts about This is how we Tech.
Tech plays a pretty important role in our household.
but social media does not.
This is how we Tech: Home network and computers
Technology is central to our family’s existence. it is our everyday. Jeffrey has been hustling in the IT world since he was in high school. we made our living for more than 15 years running an online business. technology has just always been a part of us and we’ve always been a part of the technology world.
Because of that, our home network has been incredibly high on our list of important things.
This is how we Tech: Movie Server
We feel kind of giddy about this one, how we do this particular tech. We don’t usually share it. It’s our secret, our claim, because it is basically what makes us, Us.
Basically, we have our entire movie library available to watch, all the time, any at time, any where in the world.
(imagine what that is for a second. yes. we have that. and we hacked it ourselves).
This is how we Tech: iPhones
iPhones
In this house, every one of us has one. this is our family touchstone. we use our phones to stay in contact at all times, via apps, calendars, emails, group texting, gps locating, find my friends, photo and photo sharing, social media, games, evernote, music and more.
We don't have a regular phone anymore and basically just use our iPhones for everything. It is so much more than just a phone, and a way to stay connected. It is our device for almost everything. Sorting our notes, our calendars, our contacts, our emails, our businesses, our homework, a good chunk of our photos and photography, all of our contact with friends and family.
This is how we Tech: Photography
This is how we Tech: TV
We don’t run our “TV" like other families. We've basically hacked our TV technology.
Most people don’t know this about us just by looking at us, but if you are friend to one of our teens you know this…
We don’t have cable (in fact, years ago, we literally cut the cable cord the runs underground to our house from the box — sorry next people who might buy our home someday).