I personally cannot believe that the New Year is almost here.

Ever year right about this time, I always sit down and think about resolutions for the New Year. As I’ve gotten older, it’s become even more enjoyable sitting down with my husband and making resolutions for our family and home. Each January, roughly one in three Americans resolve to better themselves in some way. Whether it be staying fit, enjoying life to the fullest, spending more time with family and friends, or learning something new, it’s all about dreaming big and being smart with your resolutions.

As the authority in millions of American homes for decades with leading products across categories, Sears has launched Sears Connected Solutions and expanded the smart technology assortment online and in stores to help you out in 2016 in making your resolutions a reality. No matter how ambitious your New Year’s resolution is, Sears Connected Solutions has the cutting-edge home automation products and services to streamline your routine, save you money and kick start a great New Year. Let’s face it all, we all make plans to change our lives for the better over the forthcoming twelve months, but unfortunately, most of these promises are more often than not broken by January 31. This year, Sears is determined to help tackle the challenge for shoppers with its smart offerings at Sears Connected Solutions.

For me and my husband, we’re all about trying to make our home the smartest it can be. We would love to bring in as many products throughout the year that make sense for our family, but most importantly – are all part of creating a connected home. To be honest with you, my husband is extremely passionate about this for our family.

Sears is simplifying the way people shop for their connected home and this makes it a breeze to shop. From wireless, streaming entertainment media devices; to smart thermostats, home security and Wi-Fi baby monitors; to fitness trackers, smart watches and wearables, Sears Connected Solutions has the cutting-edge home automation products and services to streamline your routine, save you money and put control in your hand. It truly is… Smart Made Simple. The offerings of items from Sears Connected Solutions are bringing smart technology to mainstream America instead of only appealing to early adopters… and believe it or not, many of the smart products that less than 5 minutes to set-up (this is music to my ears!).

As we’re about to kick off 2016, we thought the smartest purchase for us right away about be with younger kids:

1. Wink HUB – you can seamlessly connect your home with this HUB, it’s genius! You can control lights, locks and more from anywhere in the world. ANYWHERE! You can receive texts/email alerts when your family returns home and you can program this device to operate on your schedule.
2. GE – link Starter Kit for Connected LED Bulbs
3. Connected LED Bulbs

We’re all about conserving energy and this is such a smart way to make sure we’re doing just that! We were able to purchase these products in-store at Sears and the man who helped us kept telling us, “more and more people are going toward the smart options.”

We weren’t surprised!

Getting going with the Wink HUB was a piece of cake (I did it!)… I plugged it in, downloaded the app and started adding products!

My personal hub… 🙂

And then just connecting it to my smartphone…

I just want to say, I love, love, love how I will have the ability to control the lighting in my house form anywhere! Just the other night, we went out to dinner – came home and realized the boys (ahem) left EVERY SINGLE LIGHT ON upstairs! I couldn’t believe it! We were gone for 2 hours. As much as we want the boys to be responsible (and they should be), I love the ability to check on-the-go wherever I am!! This is SMART thinking! 🙂

And the other product we’re GUSHING OVER… our Connected LED Bulbs and Hub! 🙂

These are immediately energy efficient – uses 80% less power than a traditional bulb. 80% LESS!!!!! Can you believe that!!?? This is EXACTLY what my husband was hoping for with the lights in our house… we bought 10 of them for our living room and bedrooms.

Online, you can shop for an even wide selection of smart products on the Sears Connected Solutions site.

Amazing, right!!??

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Disclosure: This is a sponsored posting with Sears. All opinions are 100% my own.