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 ...

Having a puppy is like have a new baby. I knew it would be a lot of work and that life as we knew it, would be in shambles for a while. I know it will pay off but right now it's a bit of a struggle mentally. Staying busy typically makes food choices easy, however, for some reason right now all I can think of is pizza and ice cream. I've not caved, and have the resolve not to but it's a constant battle. My mind wants to replace the long gone calm, with treats.

Have you experienced this type of thing? What are some strategies you use to power through?

Pork belly video is mid production!

waving HI Too busy this evening and I need to get to bed, so no posting tonight. I'm still around and I listened to the Live on my walk tonight. I'll try to post tomorrow.
Remember, we can do it!! No one regrets the time spend exercising and you can always have that food, "Later."
Hugs!! 🥰