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 ...

My flight was delayed and I ended up getting home pretty late last night but thankfully I got to sleep in my own bed (I slept pretty terrible this trip).

Penelope has a little performance today for the theater camp she did this week. The kids have Bible school next week and then we leave for our big Montana road trip, which we're all very excited about.

We don't have any other major plans this weekend except for doing some preparation for that trip. Mostly just excited to catch up and get some rest this weekend. We'll do a Livestream in Locals Monday evening!

How has your week been going? What are your plans for the weekend?

Accountability post:

Blood sugar: 112

Breakfast: coffee, LMNT, collagen, HWC
Lunch: 3 lemon pepper chicken thighs (leftovers)
Dinner: 4 Wright Smoked Sausages (white cheddar and bacon)

Movement: more steps but still not my goal.

Happy Friday evening! We are about to be hit by some severe weather so this'll be quick.

Got to watch Little #1 play ball tonight. 10U is brutal as they learn to player pitch. Lots of walks and a few hit batters.

I got my new computer at work. And then the stress of me (who is not very tech savvy anymore) having to figure out where all my programs are located. And the co-worker who installed it neglected to tell me to put my desktop folders into my cloud folder. Lost all that data! Thankfully it was nothing too terribly important and lesson learned. I'm not sure how he thought I was going to do any work when I had no remote drive or access to the work station we all draw from. He's a dweeb I guess.
Anyway, my local coworker helped me figure some out and helpdesk (contracted IT) helped me find the M:Drive.
Unfortunetly I had to do all that off the clock as my request for overtime was denied by the new Operations Manager. I only asked for 1-2 hours since I basically was not working Mon & Tues ...