It is Mother's Day today in Spain (Father's Day here is in March), so I am spoiled and get to be celebrated for Mother's Day 2 weeks in a row. 😂❤️🌹 We had a slow morning today playing lots of games as a family. We are planning to get out and go for a long walk later and enjoy the sunshine. We'll do a grocery restock today and get prepped for a busy week. We are feeling very at home here though and after a busy couple weeks we are looking forward to a "normal" routine this week.
What is on your menu for the week ahead? Any grocery shopping or meal prep happening today?
**FYI: I will do a Livestream for supporters this week on Tuesday at 11am pst (2pm est).
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
Happy Thursday!! This time leading up to Christmas always makes me feel so motivated to deep clean and organize. 😂😂 I am sure it's in preparation of all the chaos and "stuff" of Christmas morning, but this past weekend I took a full car load of things to donate and another full car load to the dumpster.
I also did a 48 hour fast this week, my first one in a really long time. I feel like the more strict I am leading up to the holidays the better I feel and the easier it is for me to say 'No' to temptations because I am in such a good place.
Something about Christmas always makes me motivated to "reset" my body and my house. 😂😂 Officially one week until Christmas! 🎄
Have you done any fasting lately?
A lot of you are freezing around the country/world while we deal with 80 degree temps for the past 2 weeks. Fortunately just before that, the local ski resort got 54 inches in 3 days and is fully open. The kids and I spent Monday doing PE on the slopes. They're getting better and better and I'm excited about being able to take them up top soon. Afterwards we hit In N Out in town for a huge pile of burger patties. Proud of the kids for making the decision to skip buns and just have the meat.
Still waiting for some Christmas items to arrive here. Are you all ready? Shopping all done? It's coming so fast. Hold strong, the new year is soon.
Going to cook some ribs today and maybe a couple more things. Rumor has it we might have another wind storm tomorrow and they will potentially shut off power at 5 am. So prepping now.
Pray for hubby- he is supposed to drive some units to UT tomorrow and I’m concerned about the mountain wind and WY wind. Both routes are suspect. Praying if it’s not safe they will cancel the job.
