Good morning and happy new year to all!!
Well, here we are. Day one of the year. Feeling a little down. Away from family. Feeling lonely I guess. I will go for a walk and after I will keep watching my marathon of The X files to keep me distracted since I already did laundry and cleaned around the house.
Here's a picture of my last night meal.
I hope you all enjoy your day with family and/or friends.
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 ...
Hey everyone, just checking in, we've had a very busy few days with limited cell service, and some orthodontist emergencies 🙃.
Long story short, we were deep inside Yellowstone National Park yesterday (after getting up at 430am to drive there), hours away from civilization and Penelope had a spring break on her braces. She has some big metal pieces hanging out of her mouth so not something that could wait. We had to abandon our plans and drive a few hours to find a dentist to help us get it removed. The dentist helped in a pinch but really couldn't remove it properly so today, while in Bozeman visiting the LMNT offices, we found an orthodontist to help remove the other side and all the pieces.
Anyway, we haven't let it derail our plans too much and we are still having a great time. I'll get back to posting regularly this weekend. Hope you're having a great week.
Happy Monday! We made it to Big Sky, Montana yesterday, WOW it's so beautiful!! It just feels like you are in a movie all the time. We grilled steaks and just spent lots of time outside enjoying the beautiful weather.
The house we are staying in is owned by LMNT, so it has all kinds of electrolytes and wellness goodies everywhere. Plus all kinds of natural soaps and laundry soaps etc. They host a lot of meetings here so one of the walls upstairs is a huge dry erase board so the kids are having fun drawing on it.
We sat in the sauna 🥵 and took turns doing the cold plunge. 🥶 Today we are going hiking and white water rafting.
How was your weekend? What is your non-negotiable for this week?
Accountability for Sunday, June 14th:
After I went to Mass this morning I went over to my Mom's until I brought her down to lunch.
For lunch had some beef bologna and butter and a couple of spoonful of cottage cheese. I did some exercises with my weights. I should have gone for a walk but I was tired. My husband was tossing and turning last night so I couldn't sleep so I finally slept in the spare bed room. Around 3:00pm we went to a Open House for a house for sale. It was ok but way too big, too much money and farther away than we'd like to. On our way home we drove around seeing if we could find any houses for sale.
For Supper I had a couple of leftover pork chops with butter. Ending the day sitting outside listening to a band.
Have a great week everybody!!
