Happy Wed! We have one week till Christmas!! Chris and I sharting thinking about what we want to eat for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We always do the same thing on Christmas Day but Christmas Eve tends to vary year over year. I will share our menu plan below...what are you planning to have for Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day meals? I want to make sure I am not missing any good ideas? 😂
Christmas Eve: My favorite meal: Skirt steak, chicken things, and shrimp on the griddle (all like fajitas).
Christmas Day: Fancy Steaks (from Costco 😂) and crab legs/shrimp. We'll also do a little meat/cheese tray appetizer at some point too.
Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.
Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪
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!! We are in the calm before the chaos in terms of construction and repairs, several people coming to start fixing things Monday so we are trying to find have a normal weekend before we have to deal with that for the next few weeks.
I am taking Penelope to lunch and a musical today and Chris and Nathaniel as the going to hang out. Church tomorrow and then I will do a YouTube Livestream in the afternoon. Hope you have a great weekend!
What are your plans for the weekend?
Trying to keep it simple this weekend. Last room of carpet is finally in. Feels like a weight off my shoulders as that was a huge project done. I look forward to putting the house back together before school starts. Today I enjoyed juicy eggs, pickles...I ate several then had some electrolytes as it dawned on me I needed the salt, Ribeye. I would of ate more ribeye as I also made shrimp so there was some left but my son who requested the shrimp put the portion of his steak back in with the other steaks. Sorry Satan no cross contamination for me today. My husband made sure to point it out and educate him on why cross contamination can be serious with someone with a allergy.
My sister and BIL are here for the week. When I started carnivore 2 weeks ago, I knew they were coming. I initially was going to start after they left, but decided to start then. I’m kind of wishing I would have waited, but here we are! We’re headed to Mackinac Island on Tuesday for one night. I’m hoping I can stay on track! I know island food is super expensive! Any tips or tricks?
