This month Netatmo, the French smart home company, hosted an event with lifestyle expert Limor Suss for the launch of the Healthy Home Coach...

This month Netatmo, the French smart home company, hosted an event with lifestyle expert Limor Suss for the launch of the Healthy Home Coach device.

Note: I was invited as media to the event and received a product sample. However any personal views expressed are always 100% my own.


The event focus was how to keep homes healthy for you and your family by using the Healthy Home Coach, the innovative new indoor environmental information monitoring system.


Healthy Home Coach tracks and records indoor environmental elements –air quality, humidity, temperature and noise – and offers advice to improve indoor climate and keep things comfortable.

The device collects personalized data from your environment and provides actionable customized suggestions based on the season, the time of the day, the measurements or your user profiles. Then you decide when to adjust the humidifier, make a room heated or cooled properly, or that the sound in a child’s bedroom isn’t too loud for healthy sleep.


Using the App, any user can access the home’s indoor climate conditions from any location. With several Healthy Home Coach devices in the house, users can monitor the environment of all rooms on a single App.


Compatibility with Apple HomeKit, means you can also ask Siri how healthy your home is. You can also customize scenarios to connect a Healthy Home Coach with other smart devices according to different combinations. For example, windows open when the indoor air pollution is too high, or turning off the heat when the temperature becomes too warm.

The Healthy Home Coach retails for $99.99 and is compatible with iPhones featuring iOS 9 and above, and Android smartphones 4.2 and above.

You can purchase at Walmart, Best Buy, BabiesRUs, Amazon and on www.netatmo.com

Looking for a family friendly Fall activity as we head into October? Then plan to visit Coney Island's Luna Park to experience the Hallo...

Looking for a family friendly Fall activity as we head into October? Then plan to visit Coney Island's Luna Park to experience the Halloween Harvest. But if your family isn't into the scary stuff, don't worry. To be honest it's more Fall Harvest then Scary Halloween.

Note: I was invited as media to this event and received Luna Park wristband/tickets. However any personal views expressed are always 100% my own.

We attended a media preview during the first opening weekend and enjoyed so many activities, along with Luna Park rides and games.


To start we met the not scary scarecrow in the front of the park. While there you can try guessing the weight of the pumpkin to win prizes up to $1,000.


You can also see the Luna Park makeover. It really helped set the "Fall" tone with all the Hay stacks and Halloween decorations around the park.


We made sure to check the schedule and plan all our stops to enjoy the activities.


As we walked through Luna Park, we met costume characters who carried bags filled with treats from sponsors Welch's Fruit Snacks, Cow Tales and Campfire Marshmallow, that the kids could pick their treats from.


After getting our treats we headed over the Pumpkin Patch, where we were greeted by Dorthy and the Tin Man.


Then my son walked through the hay maze (it's nice and short) into the Pumpkin Patch where he picked out his Pumpkin. He also stop for the photo with the friendly Lion.


Then we headed over to decorate and paint our Pumpkin. For some reason my son decided to paint his Pumpkin orange! Like really? I insisted that he add more "color" to it. So he added some blue. HA!

After leaving the Pumpkin Patch, we ran around the park....


.....dancing on stage


.....trying to get into Kooky Spooky Karaoke. It was a very popular activity.


.....getting a balloon hat. My son wanted a sword but I felt a hat was safer.


.....enjoy the Luna Park rides. Sometime more then three times


.....playing games and winning prizes (I did help a little)


.....visiting the Petting Zoo and getting a Pony Ride.


We could have stayed and enjoyed all the fun into the evening but it was time to say goodbye and head home. But the Luna Park's Halloween Harvest is a great event to enjoy one day (or weekend).

Experience all the thrills, chills and Halloween frills during Halloween Harvest at Luna Park running through October 30th. The park will be abuzz with festive and seasonal activities along with special events.

This year’s Halloween Harvest will also feature a petting zoo and pony rides, compliments of Pony Express Entertainment. Magicians King Henry and Gary the Great will awe visitors, who can also enjoy face painting, arts and crafts, kooky spooky karaoke and more

In addition, mark your calendars for these special events:

• Sunday, October 9: More than 100 of our four-legged friends will participate in Luna Park’s annual Dog Parade and Costume Contest. A distinguished panel of judges will evaluate the winners based on Audience Choice, Cutest, Mister/Miss Congeniality, Most Original and Best of Show.

• Sunday, October 23: Marc and the Maniac Carvers, Brooklyn-based pumpkin carvers, are back for their fourth year in a row to transform a giant gourd into a Halloween masterpiece.

Luna Park is open on Saturdays from 12 noon to 11 p.m. and on Sundays from 12 noon to 8 p.m. For a complete schedule of Halloween Harvest events and activities, visit www.lunaparknyc.com

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