Best brand for affordable sound!

 

Soundcore and Anker….two of my favorite brands and now they’ve merged for this awesome product. I have so many products by these companies and when I do shop I ALWAYS give them a buy. 

Check these out

#affiliate

Epsolay!

 Stay tuned for the progress I try to make when I get back on Epsolay next week. 

This way , we can see if the previous improvement was a fluke or not. I was seeing real results or what felt like them on Epsolay. When I go back on it I’ll be able to see if it was just coincidence since the azelaic acid was not kind to my rosacea. 

#rosaceatreatment #epsolay #azelaicacid #clearface

Great employment opportunity for teen

 

Your kid needs some extra money?  You want a house cleaner but don’t want to commit to all year cleanings and fees?  Pay the kid?  You will be able to more easily speak to your teen about what they don’t do or do well. They’ll learn even more responsibility while earning money and no one has to drive them anywhere.  Win win! #moneysavingtips #collegesavings #summeremployment

Clear your pool in 1 day!

 

Pools can be so fun but they do require some work. 

Can you pay someone to take care of it?  Yes! 

But why?! It costs several hundred a month, here, for them to dip a strip in and maybe drop some chemicals in without looking at some important things. I have learned that your numbers can look in range but if your CSI/LSI isn’t good your will wreck your pool and your equipment. All of the numbers you typically test for, in addition to the pool temperature, is used to calculate CSI/LSI. These numbers tell if your pool could go corrosive or scaling. Neither is what you want.  Strips don’t test for this and it’s doubtful most pool places do that when they drop a quick strip in. I’m sure there are some. 

I have to say I was a little shocked it was so cloudy when I rolled back the solar cover but we had had a storm and it knocked a lot of oak pollen into the pool and the skimmer has been filling up with it quickly. SO, you can either try to clean the pollen off your winter cover and hope the waters not warming up enough to grow algae underneath or open it and clean these things a couple times a day. 

But know there’s hope for your cloudy pool. If your chemicals are in check then check the filters and skimmers. Clean, clean, clean. 

Looks like I’ll be running the pump more while these oaks are dropping so much dust pollen. Lol

#poolmaintenance #moneysavingtips #diypoolmaintenance  #learntodothingsyourself

Be the difference!

 

I know I know. It’s scary to let you middle schooler contact a teacher with a question or to check into something. But I promise if you’re there to guide them with some of the basic verbiage they’ll be doing it on their own by high school and it will #1 be one less thing on your to do list and #2 be an important lesson in life in how to handle things and begin communicating. I ONLY get involved if it’s something that either shouldn’t involve a child in the communication due to the nature or does not get resolved with the child’s attempt. These lessons last a lifetime and watching them blossom into respectful, responsible adults will be worth it. #parentingishard #nolazyparenting #teachkidsresponsibility

Do you just feel sad when the kids are sick?

 Sad?  Helpless?  Wanting to snuggle them regardless of their age?  Our sweet J (14) has had a cough for 6 straight weeks. Started with a cold and never went away.  Took him to his doctor last week and she’s thinking since his lungs sound okay it could be his allergies but he’s had walking pneumonia last year so it could be that again.  He has been so tired. But he gets up at 5 am 4 days a week for footfall workouts and then practices right after school for track until 430pm plus track meets. He was already on daily Claritin so she switched him to Zyrtec and added Flonase and a daily saline rinse in the shower after track to get anything he breathed in out.  It didn’t work. The cough has gotten wetter so today she put him on antibiotics as discussed and he will miss weights the rest of the week to get some extra rest. 

I knew he needed this but wow.  How much?  Poor guy fell asleep at 7 tonight. We got him moved to his room at 830 and he is sleeping straight through. I think he definitely needs a rest.  

Hopefully he’s good to go for his track meet tomorrow?

Our babies are always our babies. 

Best way to watch television!

 

We’ve been using Amazon Firesticks for 7 years. 

When we moved and got reliable, high speed fiber internet I was so excited. This finally meant we could get rid of having satellite service.  We don’t have access to cable at all and never have so that’s not an option. We were stuck with satellite. 

But 7 years ago we bought our first Fire Stick. We’re up to 4k now. We even have the outdoor tvs hooked up. They’re fantastic!  We can change up what we want to subscribe to and totally control our spend. I always look for Black Friday deals for a spare fire stick AND for streaming deals.  We’ve gotten Peacock for a year for $20 this way. So worth it. 

Seriously worth it to have streaming if you can and control what you watch and spend!

Fire Stick on Amazon