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!! We have a very busy week ahead, the kids have church camp, Chris is going out of town for 2 days, and then Thursday afternoon we leave for our Montana road trip! 🫠 But thankfully we did a lot of prep this weekend to hopefully help things go smoothly this week. How was your weekend?

We are already a week into June!! What is your non-negotiable for this week?

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Meal Prep...I am making my Mom a bunch of I would say Keto type freezer meals. I currently have sloppy Joe (no bun just the meat and sauce), lasagna bowl (no noodles), bbq shredded chuck roast (sweetened with dates), Laura's meatballs....any one else have ideas?? We have her over for dinner on the weekends but during the week I want her to have quick easy choices for lunch or dinner as she settles in her new house.

I made the stuffed chicken breast calzone. Like the one Emma does that is carnivore using ground chicken, parmesan and cream cheese. Only instead of cream cheese I grinded up mozzerella and added 2 oz of sausage with the pepperoni. Very delicious and I have another meal tomorrow. I don't like using heavy cream so I put 1/4 cup of Raos Arribatta Alfredo over it. Yum!