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 Tuesday! In a hotel this week with long days of meetings plus work dinners at night. It's so much harder for me to fit in exercise on these types of days. I am so good about walking and working when I am home but I can't do that during the day here. This afternoon I went for a walk around the city a bit but I'll have a harder time doing that the other days.

How are you getting in movement this week?

Checking in as Locals was funky last night and would not let me log in from my computer.

I started packing for our trip.
We made fence, pulled up some volunteer trees and I did chores.

Sleep has been terrible. I don't know if it is stress or what but I lay awake a lot. Hopefully after we get back home it will be better. I could never do Laura's job with all the traveling. Too much anxiety.

Made some of Laura's chicken salad for lunch today and tomorrow. Taste test was so yummy.

Gotta run. Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Accountability
Fresh air/ sunshine exercise
Yes, yes, yes

Food
M1: coffee, protein shake
M2: beef sticks, carnivore snax
M3: 3 fried eggs, 3 strips bacon