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 ...
The Lord is Risen!! I hope you have an amazing day celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord. ✝️🤎🙌🏼 Very grateful for each of you.
Blessed Resurrection Day family and Happy Sunday too. I hope you all had either a restful day or a day filled with remembering our Savior's resurrection and family/friends/loved ones.
I've not been as consistent in checking in as it was cold and dreary alot of last week and we had several days of farm errands. Just busy.
This weekend was the same. I had to work on Friday; Hubs had the day off. (Not Fair!) Then a quick trip to Wm. I don't recommend doing that before any major holiday. 🙄😱🤦♀️ Then Good Friday service with communion.
Saturday I cleaned and prepped today's meal. I was on my feet all day and by 8 p.m. I was hobbling. I can tell that the reduction in my daily movement is really affecting me. NOTE TO SELF: Walk/move that booty!!
Thankfully I did sleep well with no pain.
Today I was up early to have coffee! And finish the last few things for the day. Then church with 3 adult baptisms. And we met some visitors who sat in front of us. Hoping they return.
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