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 Monday!! I hope you had an amazing weekend and are feeling confident going into the week ahead. Yesterday I did some meal prep for Angus, to send meals to the dog trainer who's watching him while we're out of town.

I also did some prep for travel food for our family. And some meal planning and grocery lists for our trip. My mom is grabbing a few things from Costco that she'll then drive to West Virginia, and we will stop at a Walmart once we land and get the rest of the groceries before we head to my grandparents house. They live over an hour away (each way) from the closest grocery store so we always make sure we're really stocked up and plan ahead for our meals for our visits.

Do you have a plan for your meals for the week ahead or do you just take it one day at a time? What are some of your grocery staples that you grab to make sure you have on hand to help keep you on track?

Happy Sunday!! It's bulk trash pick up week in our neighborhood so yesterday (in the midst of all the repairs/restoration we have going on), we decided to do some deep cleaning, purging, and organizing of a couple closets. 🤪🙃 Today we have church but then planning to take the rest of the day as a real rest day before the busy week ahead. I keep forgetting we are leaving for WV this week and bought a bunch of groceries yesterday that we will now have to freeze. 🤦🏼‍♀️ My brain is all scrambled after the last couple weeks. So I guess we need to pack for our trip today too. 😂

What are you up to this weekend?

Good Evening Y'all!! I bought an at home A1C test kit. Do I remember correctly that Chris said to fast 12-14 hours but no more than 14? I'm planning on taking it tomorrow in the morning.