Happy Monday! How are you feeling today? Everything go well this weekend? Any challenges?
I know you have goals/non-negotiable set for the whole year, but Chris talked the other day about how short term goals can be really motivating. Each Monday I like to set a new goal, it might be the same as the week before or maybe you made a small tweak based on how things are going. But I think that doing short term goals and small adjustments like this is so much better than sticking with something that's not working, or making drastic changes.
So what is your one goal or non-negotiable for this week?
*Supporter Livestream Thursday this week (and next week).
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 Sunday!! Due to the leak and repairs we are going to be dealing with all week, I am going to go check into a hotel for a few days to work/sleep etc. We aren't going to be able to sleep in our bedroom while they dry out our floors, and I am in the middle of some big projects at work currently I need quiet during the day for meetings. The kids might come stay with me at night too depending on how it's going. Anyway, since it's going to be a very chaotic week ahead, I am going to wait and do my YouTube Livestream on Thursday instead of today. This will just let me have some family time this afternoon before the crazy week.
If you are shopping for Equip, they made me change my code this week, so it's just LAURASPATH without the E in the middle anymore. Which is probably easier anyway. 😂 I grabbed 2 more bags of the banana protein for the kids before it sells out forever. https://www.equipfoods.com/LAURASPATH
Headed to volunteer for one service and attend the other this ...
Happy Sunday Family!!
Hope everyone who is under this horrible heat is taking care of yourselves, animals, checking on family/friends/neighbors. Yesterday the heat index in the city was 117!!! So glad we were on our way home by then.
The zoo was fun but we were very thankful for the large jungle play gym in the air conditioned building. We only saw a few of the more exotic animals (fed giraffes, ant eater, monkeys, cheetas, peacocks.) The tigers and penguins were inside in their cool facilites.
We rode the train and since it was their last trip of the day due to the heat and we sat in the very front; gs made friends with the engineer. He wanted to ride in the locomotive, but that of course is not allowed. But the engineer told him to watch to see which button he pushed to make the horn sound and if he could tell him which one at the end, gs could try it out when we stopped. So he did get to climb up in the cab and sounded the horn and bell. He was a happy boy!
Lunch was DQ burgers and since ...
Spent the day yesterday at a car dealership, but so excited to finally have a reliable car again! Not the most exciting way to spend my birthday, but I spent it with my kids, so I was happy! My oldest son went with me to look at Subaru's. He has been researching them and we both decided the forester was the perfect car for me. Was glad to have him there, as he asked all the questions I wouldn't have thought about. For my present, he matched my down payment and bought me oil change package.
Then I went to dinner at a steak restaurant with the younger two kids to try out the new car. At the restaurant, they did bring an ice cream sundae to the table, but the kids ate that for me. Today, my present is they are taking me to the Durham train museum for my present. I tell them I prefer experiences over random gifts, so I am looking forward to this.
The only thing that would make this better would be celebrating with all my kids together instead of splitting my time with them. My ...
