Well if you saw my Instagram stories yesterday you know that today we are NOT going to Mexico as planned. If you didn't know, there was an escalation yesterday between the Mexican cartels and the police, specially in Puerto Vallarta, and the US is recommending not traveling to Mexico. Roads are being blocked and the airport in Guadalajara was attacked.
We were going to Cancun, which at this point has not been affected, however not knowing if things will continue to escalate around the country in the upcoming days, we decided it was safest to not travel to Mexico this week. As a pivot I was able to get a refund on our hotel and flights, and immediately rebooked us to go to Maui, Hawaii instead. 😂 So we still leave this morning for vacation, just do a different location. Sending lots of prayers to everyone in Mexico currently. 🙏🏼
I will check in when I can but honestly we plan to just really disconnect this week and spend time together as a family. I will resume morning posts on Saturday. I hope you have a wonderful week and am certain you will all continue to support each other this week in our absence. Have a wonderful rest of February!!
What is your non-negotiable for the 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! I definitely haven't slept much but the girls have had an amazing time. They all go home after church today. I grilled hamburgers and hot dogs yesterday and cooked up 5 pounds of bacon to go on their burgers and to prep for breakfast this morning. A lot of them still ended up with stomach aches from eating too much junk throughout the weekend (from snacks they brought and meals at the church). I gently reminded them as they were complaining they didn't feel good that "maybe you could take a break from the sugar and it might help you feel better." Not sure if it was sinking in though. At least I did my part though to make sure they got in a little bit of protein and I only gave them sugar-free drink options as well.
I will need to spend a LONG time cleaning today but first I might need a nap. 🫠
Livestream tomorrow on YouTube to kickoff the Sept challenge, so be thinking of what goals you want to set. Have a great day!
Happy Saturday! It's been a chaotic time already 😂😂 but everyone is having a great time! I might even sneak in a nap today while all the girls are at the church.
I was talking to my friend in Houston, she is currently doing a Carnivore Reset and it made me wonder if anyone else is wanting to go a Beast Mode or a Carnivore type challenge for Sept? I need to do a YouTube Livestream Monday evening and thought we could kick off Sept on that night and set some goals together.
Who needs some reset and accountability?
Happy Friday!!! I got home late last night after a long week of work. Everything went really well thankfully in my presentations. Tonight we have 15 7th grade girls coming to our house for the weekend. 🤪😂 Chris, Nathaniel, and Angus are going to the cabin for the weekend but I am hosting Penelopes church small group for their in-town camp. They are mostly at the church and doing service projects this weekend but they will stay at our house overnights and spend one afternoon here. Chris cleared out all the living/room dining room furniture to make rooms for the girls to set up all their air mattresses. 🙏🏼 Pray for us. 🤪😂 I'll grill burgers for them all and make lots of bacon and eggs for breakfasts.
What are your plans for the weekend?
