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Braving the Holiday Travel Season Without Going Bankrupt

Time is ticking if you want to score a decent deal on a place to crash this Thanksgiving. Fortunately, you don’t have to win the lottery in order to pay for a hotel room during the busy holiday weekend. If you prefer to stay in drama-free accommodations rather than bunking at your parents, in-laws or Aunt Suzy’s on Turkey Day consider the following: Holiday Inn: With more than 1,500 locations nationwide, Holiday Inn is hard to beat when it comes to convenience and price. Not only do kids under 19 stay for free, but children under the age of 12 … Continue reading →

How Safe Are Public Pools?

A friend posted an article on Facebook about a $50-million public pool that just re-opened up in one of my old neighborhood haunts in Brooklyn. The facilities look amazing in the photos, large and well-kept. The problem: recent teen violence that included two police officers getting punched in the face. I remember back to my own public pool experiences growing up. There we were, all smashed together like sardines and loving it. I also remember cutting my foot on the bottom of the pool, whether it was on a rough edge or a piece of glass. I’m not sure which, … Continue reading →

Baby at the Pool

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It is the first day of summer officially, and here in my home state, it is definitely warm! My kids have been begging me to take them swimming. So, when a friend invited us to their neighborhood pool, I decided to drive the 20 minutes out to her house for a swim. I was a little worried about how it would go with trying to remember everything I needed for myself and three kids at the pool. Trying to remember everything you need for a baby is hard enough! When we got there, I got my kids all lathered up … Continue reading →

Insurance Blog Week in Review – June 3-9, 2012

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Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review gives you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on all the blogs that appeared here in the past week. There can be anywhere between twelve and fourteen blogs that go up. What did you miss? What You Could Lose if the Supreme Court Overturns ACA The Supreme Court is going to reveal its ruling regarding the court case about the Affordable Care Act. Here is a quick list of some of the things you will lose if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on June … Continue reading →

From the Bath to the Pool Part II

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My daughter’s first visit to the pool only required her swim diaper and bathing suit because I knew that we would only stay for thirty minutes or so. Applying sunscreen and blowing up her boat like water floaty seemed like too much for our first time out. Knowing that she loves being in the water at bath time, gave me hope that she would also enjoy being in the water at the pool. Only her brother and I accompanied her to the pool during Memorial day weekend for her first pool experience. She wore her long sleeved and hooded bathing … Continue reading →

Our Swimming Pool Adventures: Our First Visit to the Pool

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With all of our pent up anticipation for the upcoming swimming pool season, I was thrilled when I discovered that one of the five local pools was opening a week early for Memorial Day. Given all of my preparations, I was excited to take the kids to the pool sooner than I had originally planned. However, I had reservation about going to the pool during Memorial Day weekend due to the inevitable throngs of people. This particular pool opened on Saturday and even though the high temperature for the day was in the nineties, I did not make an attempt … Continue reading →

Pool Workout

Summer is by the far the number one season for being in the pool. The sun is hot and jumping in a pool can be majorly refreshing. So when it finally got hot around here, I went into my parent’s pool. I soon realized what a great workout swimming and playing in the pool can be! You can get a great workout from the resistance the water provides. This is great for people of all ages and especially beneficial if you have joint problems. Just remember it is safer to swim with a buddy than swim alone. For some safety … Continue reading →

Going Forward

Are you going forward in your Christian life? Are you learning to trust God more with each day and with your future? If we’re not going forward, then we are not living the life God wants for us. This stuck me yesterday in more than one reading. The first was in Numbers 13. God told Moses to send spies out to check out the land He had promised to give them. God’s aim, I’m sure, was to encourage them with how good the land was and also to see what was in their hearts and whether they trusted Him. The … Continue reading →

Indoor Swimming Pool

My toddler daughter and I attended the third birthday party of her twin friends recently. The party was at a community center with an incredible indoor pool. The shallow end didn’t have a drop; it was a shoreline like being at the beach. When Jessie saw the water she was going to go right in fully dressed. I had to stop her from getting her clothes wet and she still went in with her shoes on. We went into the party room long enough to say hi to all my friends, especially the hosts, and drop off the baby before … Continue reading →

Going for Walks

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We’ve lived in our house for nearly four years. The property contains an acre of land. The small community and large lot are what drew us to this location. The housing development is quiet and our neighbors are nice. Our toddler daughter Jessie loves to go outside and run around the large backyard. She has plenty of room to run. Unfortunately, she likes to run to the neighbors’ houses. The neighbors who have children have very interesting things in their yards. These things are particularly interesting to our toddler. She is especially obsessed with the battery-operated John Deere ride-on truck … Continue reading →