My Toys

For Christmas I was lucky to receive the Amazon Kindle from my parents. Even though I asked for it, I was a little bit nervous that I would have a problem reading novels from a screen instead of a page. I had no need to worry, though. The beauty of the kindle is that it looks exactly like the page from a book and nothing like a computer screen. It was also my lifesaver when Sawyer was first born and nursing him took a minimum of 40 minutes every single time. Instead of sitting and staring at the wall for 40 minutes, I took the opportunity to finish several novels on my kindle. While I would never have been able to manage nursing my baby and a bulky book, the little kindle was no problemo. The last thing I love about the Kindle is that it helps me choose books to read. Maybe I'm alone on this one, but a trip to the library or bookstore was always a very overwhelming experience for me. I tended to literally choose a book by it's cover, but that is no more. Not only do other users write their recommendations, but you can search for books using lots of different criteria, and once you've read a few books the kindle will start recommending books to you which has also been very helpful. All in all, I love my Kindle!

This summer while traveling across the country with my dad, I realized that the two of us were probably the last two people on the planet who weren't getting internet and email on our phones. At the time, I was proud of that fact. For Mike's 30th birthday, though, he got the iPhone 4 and passed his iTouch down to me. After I started using the iTouch a bit, I started turning my green-with-envy eyes towards Mike's phone. I, however, did not want to spend a couple hundred dollars on a cell phone. You can imagine my glee when AT&T started advertising the iPhone 3GS for only $49.99. Perfect! I must say, now that I have the iPhone, I really can't imagine living without it. It is especially useful to me now, since I am completely addicted to facebook and email but often don't even have the chance to sit down at my computer one single time during my very busy stay-at-home-mommy-day. The iPhone 3GS has saved me from getting the shakes and having to go into facebook withdrawal rehab. Thank you, iPhone! You are a lifesaver. Literally.

Last but not least, my new computer the HP TouchSmart 300 PC. Though the iPhone helps me manage my facebook and email shakes, there's much I can't do on it. (this BLOG, Sawyer's website, bills...etcetcetcetc). Our home computer served us for approx. 6 years, but died over the summer, came back to life, and died for good last week. Mike and I took to computer shopping, and of course, couldn't pass up such a neat computer. The coolest thing about this computer? The setup = plug in the computer. Literally. Goodbye thousands of confusing cords. Hello simplicity! I love our new computer and highly recommend it to anyone else in the market. It was also very affordable. We got a refurbished one from bestbuy.com and haven't had any trouble with it at all.

I know we should be saving our money for Sawyer's toys, but these three items were pretty much necessities, and I love my new toys!