The best & easiest ways to track your deliveries for FREE

So, I've noticed lately that a lot of people are just surprised when packages show up and have no notice when things are going to show up especially when they aren't given a tracking number.  Well here are the 3 things I use to track deliveries.

All 3 options come with an app that you can use to track your deliveries as well

My USPS

Most of our packages come through USPS and sometimes we do get some surprise packages that we don't know about.   We find that My USPS is a nice addition to USPS and you get real time updates (even real time delivery updates).  You can even have a text sent to your phone when the package is delivered.  The app and tracking is accurate, unless your postal worker is scanning your packages delivered before they actually are which is a no, no because USPS now uses GPS location when packages are delivered and scanning something delivered when it is not could get them in trouble because you could as for the GPS location for the delivery and if it's not your house the postmaster won't be happy.

UPS My Choice

UPS My choice has two options, free or paid.  I just use the free option because that is all I need really.  It sends you an email when you have a package coming and the day before it is scheduled to be delivered as well as the day of delivery.  Below is what you get being a free member and what you get being a premium member.

FedEx Delivery Manager

FedEx Delivery Manager is also free and is pretty much the same as UPS, not many of my packages come via FedEx but I do appreciate their delivery window that they provide.

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A life update...

We're sorry if we have been a little MIA lately.  Life has not been too kind to us and we had a lot thrown on our plate.

We have a little baby who is almost 1 year old and he is super active and always on the go.  My grandmother ended up in the hospital with a brain aneurysm and a 3% chance to live.  She did make it and is in recovery now and has a lot of physical therapy to go through.

Then, my mother ended up in the hospital on life support.  She has been an alcoholic for over a decade and has had several trips to the hospital because she was acting off and was having trouble with her organs.  Not once has she ever actually admitted to drinking, it has always been "ice water."  Imagine growing up with a drunk mother, who was not a nice drunk but a very mean drunk, and one that couldn't even admit to the fact that they had ONE drink, in her world she wasn't drinking any alcohol.  

Well, this trip to the hospital was different.  The ambulance had to be called, they worked on her for close to 30 minutes before they even left for the hospital.  It was THAT BAD.  She ended up on life support and they airlifted her to a hospital that was more equipped to deal with the multitude of issues.  Her organs were not functioning, she had no blood pressure, and her temperature was 94 degrees.  Against all odds she did survive and quite possibly in the most amazing moment of all of this she not only admitted that she had a problem but that she was going to AA meetings.  Will she actually follow through?  Only time will tell.

I may actually end up with my mother after all of this.  For all of the families suffering with a loved one with an addiction, I feel for you, my heart aches for you.  I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.  It is an awful thing to have to watch someone suffer with someone with addiction.


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Making bone broth for dogs

As promised before in our previous blog post, we documented making bone broth from the beginning.

We started off with raw bones (beef bones are on the left and pork neck bones are on the right).  Pork neck bones are relatively inexpensive so we definitely recommend them.

 We then add them to the slow cooker and cover them with just enough water to cover them by an inch or two.  We added Italian Seasoning and turmeric which is where the yellow tint comes from.

Then we set the slow cooker and forget about it for at least 24 hours.  The bones will break down and the pork neck bones mostly just dissolve away.  When you take the bones out they crumble with any sort of pressure (it doesn't take much).   We remove the bones and let the mixture sit in the fridge and remove it when the fat forms a hard layer on top of the liquid (which turns into a jelly like form when chilled).

After being chilled the mixture becomes a jelly from all of the cartilage that dissolved

Once it is chilled and the fat is removed we mix up the jelly mixture and place it in ice cube trays to freeze it.  The mixture is only good in the fridge for 4 days and we can't use that much in 4 days so we freeze it and just defrost when we feed the dogs.  The little dog gets 2-3 cubes a meal (he eats twice a day).

This may not be for everyone and we get that but we think it benefits our cancer patient and helps him battle his lymphoma.   Feel free to follow us on Instagram.

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Bone Broth for dogs

So we've mentioned a few times about bone broth in a few of our posts and we finally remembered to take some photos of it.  See our latest cancer post here.  We did forget to take photos before we cooked it but I guess tiny humans can do that to you.

We got our bone broth inspiration from here, and a few of our canine loving friends.  We use raw bones to make ours, we could use cooked but for us raw is easy for us to find at a good price point.  Pork neck bones are awesome to use!  We have also used turkey wings.  That is what we used this time.  Any joint bones are good (the cartilage is what you are looking for).

We just throw ours in a slow cooker and let it cook for at least 24 hours.  The link above is a great site to get inspiration from.  We took ours out of the slow cooker and chilled it overnight then removed the layer of fat which really wasn't that much.

This is what it looked like after we removed the layer of fat, it is a gelatin like consistency when cold.

Then we put it in ice cube trays until frozen and drop them in a freezer bag until we need to use them.  You can also store it in the fridge for 4 days.

Bone broth is pretty easy to make and it helps with so many things.  Definitely something good for our little cancer patient.

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Canine Lymphoma update - Weeks 6 & 7

Well for week 6 we went in on a Friday just went in to run a CBC test to make sure that he was responding well after treatment and to make sure that his cells were responding the way that they should.  Everything went well and he is continuing to respond well to treatment and his blood count was not too low.  We give him bone broth every morning and evening with his meals so we believe that is helping.

Please keep in mind we are not vets but this is just what we think based off of what we are doing.  His first battle with lymphoma he had to skip quite a few weeks of treatment because he wasn't making enough white blood cells.  Since starting the bone broth we haven't skipped a single treatment.  We are going to make some more bone broth next week so stay tuned!  We will photograph the process we go through, it is a very long process but so worth it.

Week 7 - We went in on Friday (can you tell we like Fridays?) to run a CBC and do chemo if his CBC was high enough.  The above photo was him hanging out while they were running the numbers on the CBC.  His CBC was high enough so we went ahead with the chemo.  We had a little bit of  hiccup with his vinicristine injection where the needle went through the vein and a small amount ended up under his skin.  The vet flushed it out with saline and advised us to do a warm compress every 4 hours for the next 24 hours and to call if anything looked different.  So far, nothing is out of the ordinary and you would never know something was wrong.



Everything was covered with our pet insurance, as it always is.  For our pet insurance we pay about $40 a month for him and we get 90% of what we pay back after we hit our $250 annual deductible, which we hit months ago.  His first cancer go, we hit our deductible in 1 visit.  Healthy Paws is so easy to work with.  We faxed them all our of records in the beginning and now all we do is snap pictures of invoices with our phone and in about a week there is a check or two in our mailbox.  They have an easy to use mobile app.

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