Essential Chips Sense

Where are all my jewelry makers?!? What does a picture of handmade earrings have to do with YL? Do you see how many sets of earrings I’ve made in the last 24 hours (not a ton comparative but for this full time teacher/mom/wife, that’s a collection!)? Do you see how my nails are still nice and long? No chips, breaks or bends? That’s Sulfurzyme and Master Formula at work friends! If you have ever assembled jewelry - especially by hand and with all.the.jump rings - then you know the havoc it can do to your nails! I had to stop making jewelry for a while because my nails were so weak and flaky. They would chip away at the slightest breeze...I knew I couldn’t close jump rings or assemble jewelry! But not only are they strong enough to survive jewelry making, they are strong enough to survive teaching, momming, pets, opening cans of Zyng (cause I have up sodas long ago!), do***ng in the dirt, laundry, cooking, cleaning and all.the.things! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 And now I have my “therapy” back and I can survive all those things, too! 😂

T-minus one week until we are all back to school...that means one week until “back to reality”. Back to making the kids take actual showers and not just let the pool do the hard works (hey, chlorine kills things, right?? 🤷🏻‍♀️). Back to laying out clothes the night before instead of all-day PJ days. Back to waking up early (sooooo early!) to the sound of the alarm instead of the sound of my children begging me to let them skip their chores and watch movies all day (I’m the mean mom that makes them do homeschool lessons, reading and chores BEFORE they get to have summer fun!). Back to rushing around cramming all the things in and praying there is time for a decent dinner. Back to homework and practicing instruments and football and UIL and choir and student teaching and coaching and all.the.things. So tonight...in celebration - and defiance in equal measure - of our last week of summer, I sure did just stand in my kitchen eating these bad boys with a dollop of cream cheese and a scoop of left over cherry pie filling from the fridge. It didn’t suck. And I do feel a little better. Now back to staying up a little too late on a Sunday night just because we can to finish our Transformers marathon...we still got one more week and I’m hanging on to every second!