Happy Wednesday!! I am back to work today after a nice long weekend with the family. Apologies if I have missed some messages the last couple of days. In addition to being off work, my phone has been not working properly so I had to get them to ship me a replacement. I had to spend most of yesterday evening after my livestream getting the new one all set up.
I can't believe it but we are in the final couple days of July already! Most of you know we like to do some reflection at the end of every month before we start setting some goals for the new month.
First thing I like to focus on is 'what went well'. What was something that went well for you this month? What was your biggest win in July?
For me, I am proud that I have continued to stick with movement for the whole month of July. 💪🏼
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 Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
Happy Sunday! I am headed to the airport early this morning, sad to not be in church with my family today. After everything that's happened over the last week I know it will be a powerful Sunday morning. I am planning to fast today since I will be traveling for a lot of the day, and no work obligations until tomorrow. Do you have any plans to fast this week?
I hope you are able to reset and restore yourself today, and get prepared for the week ahead, surrounded by those you love!
Have a blessed day. ❤️
Happy quiet Sunday Family!
First and most importantly, after this past week, we need to draw near to our Lord and Savior Jesus. That is the Only thing that matters. Not the nation, not the government, not the latest agenda. Only our relationship with God. I pray that everyone here, knows Jesus in a personal way, but if you don't or have questions, please reach out to me or to anyone here who has shared their faith.
I was not online much yesterday. Partly because we are still sick. This is some bad congestion/cough stuff. Now Farmer is down with it.
But on a more happy note, I was also out because it was our 45th wedding anniversary!! We didn't get to celebrate quite as excitingly as we hoped, due to feeling cruddy. But we did spend the day together and we did go out to eat last night. (No fevers, and we were sat in a corner booth, so hopefully didn't contaminate anyone else.)
Today we are home from church and resting a lot. As soon as I finish my protein shake, I'll be fasting for the ...
Happy Saturday, I am so excited for the weekend, even though it's a short one for me. I fly to Chicago tomorrow morning for the week for work, I have to be there first thing Monday morning. I planned this entire trip for our group so I got to pick the restaurants. 👍🏼
Today we are just having a family day, our new Saturday tradition of "tacos" for lunch. Skirt Steak like normal and making some shrimp also. And then it's been a long week for us all so we'll probably do a family movie night.
Any suggestions for a fun family movie?
What are you plans for the weekend?
