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 Monday!! I hope you had an amazing weekend!! We are in our final days of June already, AND halfway through 2026 already!! 🤯 So instead of just reflecting back on June for the next couple of days, let's reflect on 2026 as a whole. I love short term goals, but sometimes it's good to remember how far we have come over a longer period of time.

So today, let's focus on the WINS of 2026! For me, I have been able to lose and maintain this lower weight, and I am still keeping my hormones functioning properly! 💪🏼 And I have also been able to keep consistent with walking and movement, which is the longest I have EVER been consistent with this.

What about you? What have been the best things to happen to you so far this year? What can we celebrate with you today?

About two or three months ago I started adding about one and a half to two tablespoons of butter to each meal. I eat 3 small meals a day. Not long ago I decided to stop taking digestive enzymes. I've taken them for forty years. Not long after I also stopped taking probiotics. To my surprise I have discovered that my gut has healed. No more constipation. No more diarrhea. No more bloating after eating. No more stomach pain. At age 83 this is the first time in my life that I have not had any gut issues. I've been strict carnivore (due to autoimmune issues) for over 6 years and finally I have a peaceful happy gut. I may start introducing some other foods at some point and see what happens. Carnivore is pretty amazing. And, I must add, Thank you Lord!! This is definitely an answer to prayer.