Happy Sunday! If you didn't know TikTok was banned last night, I have never had a TikTok account so it doesn't affect me at all, but I do know it's impacting a lot of people. Were you on TikTok at all? Apparently there are rumors Trump will allow them to extend operations for 90 days until they workout a long term plan once he takes office on Monday. We don't make things political in this group but it will be very interesting to see how things change overall with the new administration. We already see things shifting with the banning of Red 3, and hopefully we can get the rest of the food dyes out of our foods soon! And I think the Make America Healthy Again movement is going to really start building some positive momentum.
Today we are making my favorite meal, the skirt steak, chicken thighs, and shrimp on the griddle. Thankfully I am still off work tomorrow for the holiday, I am excited to catch up with everyone on a Monday night Livestream at 4pm pst/7pm est (since it's a holiday we'll start a little earlier). Have a great day!!
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 ...
Made it thru 5 states today. Two more to go but only 4hrs of road time. We pushed hard today to get as far as we could. Food wise I made meat calzones for us to eat when we stopped finally at a hotel. But to be honest it would of been better to fast. I wasn't all that hungry and neither was my husband. But that's okay we have leftovers to enjoy tomorrow! I also have burger patties packed just in case. Tomorrow we make the final trek into northern Maine. I did have someone complement my "eat meat" front license plate.
Six weeks ago I had a conversation with Dad about how reducing the crazy amount a carbs and sugar he was eating would help with the pain he was in. I gave him a getting started guide from Dr. Berry's website. I come home for the 4th & find this. And he's down to 20-30 carbs a day.
Happy Sunday evening family!
Today was nice and quiet after all our fun yesterday. In a nutshell, we spent all day from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in town at our huge celebration. We took the grandkids out for breakfast at their school, then to look around the flea/craft tents, where we got rained on. We took shelter in my office which is right in the middle of all the festivities. Once it stopped raining and they all finally ( ! ) made their decision on which fidgit they wanted Pappo to buy them; it was time for us to head up and do our trolley conductor shift (10:30-12:30). They got to ride on half of the loop and I'm pretty sure #4 would have stayed with us the entire time. They went on with M&D to do the bounce houses and such.
After our shift we came back downtown to find lunch. WAY too Many people in food alley so we walked a few blocks up to Dairy Queen for burger patties. Then we watched some good friends & their family (34 grandkids!) sing. After that, we walked over to our parade watching ...
