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 ...

There has been several different scams going around lately, the guy using my pictures recently, Dr.Berry has had some fake accounts set up using his likeness, and some others. I am going to recap those situations tonight and hopefully help people know what to look out for.

I'll answer questions on the steam as well. Hope you can make it!

I'm hitting a bit of a rough patch. I'm a massive self savatoger and I can feel myself creeping towards that! So I'm posting here for accountability and to see if anyone else does the same thing. My birthday is next week and for some reason that is always a huge food trigger for me. We're going away for my birthday which is also usually a huge trigger because vacations used to be for eating junkie the entire time. I hate that I almost feel like "if I can't eat everything I want, what's the point of going to all these restaurants on vacation?"
My plan is
-go to Costco and Sprouts today to see what foods I can get excited about to either have before we leave or while we're gone. I especially want to find some fun seltzers and pork rinds
-think of something fun to stick a birthday candle in instead of cake (I'm thinking a good cheese)
-make a list of what I'm excited to do on vacation other than eat junk

Any other ideas?