Happy Wednesday! Things are still going well here in Madrid. Thankfully I have been sleeping great and getting lots of walks in. Tonight is dinner at our family's favorite restaurant here, I got a reservation back in July, before I even booked my flight for this trip. It's a Uruguayan restaurant that serves amazing steaks and they have friend cheese as an appetizer. They even bring you a cup of warm beef broth to start your meal. It's the perfect carnivore restaurant. The weather here has been perfect which makes long walks even better. I have a couple more days here and travel home Friday.
How is your week going? Is it feeling like fall where you live? Have you been able to be outside this week getting some fresh air?
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 Saturday!! I am so excited to have a nice long weekend at home hanging out with the family. We mostly have no plans but I do need to film some YouTube videos. I am even more excited to eat at home for a few days, I am pretty used to eating out while I travel but nothing like a grilled steak from home!! Fun update here, Nathaniel got his braces off this week. He'll get them on again for another year in the future but he is finished with Phase 1.
What are your plans this weekend?
Happy Saturday everyone! Sorry I've been AWOL. Hubby has had the sinus crud. It's been horribly hot here. Work is getting really busy. We weaned calves and I'm on chore duty for the foreseeable future. Plus all the normal household chores and life.
Currently, I am fighting off the same sinus crud so today I slept until 9 a.m. and took a long nap this afternoon. Rest, lots of liquids and Vit C/Elderberry AND prayer, are helping a lot.
Yesterday we bought a new grill at Wm because ours wouldn't light. Then hubby took it apart and cleaned it out and well, what do you know... it Works! 😂 Amazing what some TLC will do. Anyway, we took the new one back.
The old one cooked our burgers just fine last night.
Today we stopped by to see the kids. DDil and I are figuring out all the ways to save on what they eat and what we eat and where to get the best prices. We looking into Azure Standard, Aldi, Costco/Sam's, Whole Foods and local producers. It's a lot of work, but we both agree it's so much ...
