Friday afternoon my Iphone came! Yes, I am beyond excited, and yes, I am absolutely loving it, and yes, I absolutely recommend Iphones. The one thing I wish I had known to seriously consider is size. I got an Iphone 4, 8G. If I had it to do over again, I would spend the money and get a 16 or even, possibly, bigger. My Iphone is full. Yes, full. Already. I wish that that wasn't the case, but after trying, and failing, to exchange it for a bigger model, I have made peace with it and I'm going through and being much more selective about what songs are in my playlist. All of the music on the computer is definitely not going to fit, but that's okay. Really, how can I complain? I can still easily put hundreds of my favorite songs on it and that's pretty awesome. I'm a little concerned about how it's going to handle storing photographs I take, but it's all workable and I definitely love it. The other thing I would have considered is possibly upgrading all the way to the 4S simply because of the 8mb camera, but I'm not at all sure I would have taken that financial leap. I did notice when I used my phone for pictures this weekend that they look pretty grainy to me. Am I doing something wrong? I'm also looking for App advice. If you have any you love and find really useful or just plain fun, please share. I'd really like to find one that's good for documents such as grocery lists too.
[Sidebar: I may offend some of you with this one, but yesterday at dance I saw a little girl, 8-10, somewhere in there, with her own Iphone. Really. I'm sorry, I do not understand this, on a couple of levels. One, I'm a firm believer that the internet needs to be monitored with kids. All kids, I don't care how good they are, can be tempted and the internet is just way too free and easy. Remember when the advice always was (and, full confession, I think it's really good advice), to keep computers and the internet out of private places such as bedrooms and put it in the family room or kitchen instead? Now, parents hand over Iphones and Ipod touches with full internet access and no restrictions? Not appropriate, in my opinion. Also, if you get an Iphone when you're 8 or 9 or 10, where do you go from there? What's to look forward to? Julianna would love to have an Ipod for her birthday. She'd really like to have a Nano, but she's getting a shuffle. Number one, it's more affordable for our family, number two, at $50.00 it's not the end of the world if it gets lost or something happens to it, which though she takes very good care of her things, she is going to be nine and things do happen. Number three, it gives her something to look forward to down the road when she's a bit older. For the record, she's also getting a speaker to go with it because in our family we do not isolate into headphones. Pet peeve.]
Friday night I was too tired from
Saturday the weather was very, very windy, so Mark and Jacob opted not to go camping. Julianna had been up most of the night Friday with a horrible cough, so we had a delightful family day, getting some round-the-house chores done and just enjoying each other. Perfect. Oh, I also snuck in some retail therapy to help me get over the wasted trip to the Apple store, I scored a gorgeous purse on sale for 1/2 price as well as a great shirt for $9. It's wonderful and a little scary how good that made me feel.
Sunday after church we headed out to a local pumpkin farm. So much fun! I'll post more later in the week with pictures.
Well, that's it for now. Busy weekend, lots to do now to catch up. Definitely worth it though. Last week my meal plan did not go well at all, I barely stuck with it. I'm off to figure out a new one that will hopefully fit the week better.
Happy Monday!
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It was a HUGE decision for us to get our oldest a smart phone for her 12th birthday, but it became more of a necessary than a "keeping up with the Joneses" gift. We give her a $25 card each month to replenish her minutes ($2 a day if she texts/makes a call). The rule is she has to leave enough money on the phone each month to make at least one emergency call, and she has to pay for extra time if she goes over. So far it's worked out well.
Oh, I like Melissa's solution, that's a goody!
Re: kids and iPhones. My husband and I have talked about the fact that now that Nintendo DS and other handheld games can go on the web, we'd rather get the kids iPhones because they are more easily controlled--and closeout ones can be scored for about $50. The games are cheaper and at least since I'm familiar with the platform, I know how to monitor what they do online (if anything) with that. At our kids' ages, we're not even close to cellphones yet, but they have just about outgrown the Leapsters, and we travel enough that we'd like to do another handheld system and need to figure out which one. So that "iPhone" might not have been connected to a phone plan--that's our plan at least!
Meanwhile: app to have: Flashlight. It's free or very cheap and does throw great light if you drop your keys in the dark (not that YOU would ever do that, but some people you know might do that...) I'm addicted to Scrabble and Bejeweled, but of course the games take up space too...
Last but not least, our 8G iPod touch is full too. It's just made me much more selective about playlists, and that's been fine too. Both kids get to pick 10-20 songs they love that go on "their" list, and that way they are happy and so am I.
Have fun!
Wow. That sounds like a fabulous weekend! And no, I wouldn't give my kid an iphone or any other type of phone for that matter. To be honest, my kids won't have a cell phone until they can pay for it. I'm mean like that.
So glad your family had so much fun together! :)
TOTALLY agree about young kids and smart phones. Knowing what we know about how even an innocent web search can lead to some pretty "interesting" things, young kids need to have regular phones w/ no internet.
I don't have an iPhone, but everyone I know who has one uses Instagram for photos...
i upgraded to the 4S from the 3GS and spent the weekend playing with it :)
It sounds like you had a good, but tiring weekend.
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