It was only a matter of days before Christine was missing the My Home 2.0 crew, so she dipped her toe into the blogosphere and wrote about it, hardly able to believe she was even using a computer. Keeping the kids in line with so many technological temptations around can be tough, and doesn't leave much time for reading user guides...but Christine still figured out how to do some clever holiday-themed Photoshopping nonetheless.

Mom got a computer of her own, from which she can access a customized online scheduling tool, and even synch with her new PDA, for when she's on the go. The kids got three computer workstations, all networked on a mammoth 1-Terabyte server -- each kid has a user name and password, so they can use whatever computer's available. And the family got not one, but two giant TVs -- a 50" plasma upstairs, and a digital projector with 92" screen in their drive-in movie-themed basement (the "car couch" even has seatbelts!)

Each of the 9 Zaharko kids has a set of chores to do each week, and there's no room for slackers...unless you counted the family's electronics. Their one computer couldn't handle the steady stream of school research papers, even on the rare days when it didn't crash. And Emily, a special needs child, hardly got to use it at all, as it was so different from the machines at her school. Parents Christine and Jay had to do all the family scheduling by hand, penciling so many items in the calendar you could hardly see what day it was.