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 Wednesday!! We are in the final 2 days of April, this year is FLYING by!! It's time for some reflection on the month before we start our Beast Mode Challenge on Friday. Today we celebrate the wins and focus on all the good things that have happened over the last month. What has been your biggest win in April? Share below and let's celebrate together the best things that have happened over the last month. (Personal or health related).
First batch of LMNT arrived today! Thank you @Lauraespath for the use of your discount code! Sipping on the orange now - tastes great! And yes, a little salty lol
I start as head cook tomorrow for the next 3 weeks while our cook has her hip replaced. In preparation for morning breakfast I made my oldest this breakfast casserole. He said it was the best one I ever made. Haha. Sausage patties on the bottom, 18 eggs, seasonings, little peppers/onions, and a sprinkle of cheese on top. Pretty sure he ate 1/4 of it for dinner.
My birthday is on the 5th and I am really tempted to make a carnivore dutch baby (Courtney Luna's recipe). However, I know two things will happen ..I will want to eat it all and be annoyed when I have to share and I will gain due to all the dairy. So I am talking myself out not it. I keep saying let's save it for vacation in July.
Side note--why is the sauna sooo relaxing!
