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 Tuesday!! Wow I LOVED reading your wins for September yesterday!! If you didn't post yours yet, go back and share. And if you need some encouragement, go read what everyone shared on that post about what they were able to accomplish in just one month! 🎉🎉

We know not everyday day or every month can be perfect, we accomplish our long term goals by acknowledging what went wrong, and LEARNING from it!! We have to stop having the same setbacks over and over again. So let's talk about where you got stuck in September! Tomorrow we can talk about how to fix it, today is just about identity where you had setbacks, and more importantly WHY they happened. The more we understand WHY we had setbacks, the more we can learn from them and stop repeating them! ❤️❤️

YouTube Livestream tonight at 8pm EST (5pm PST)! Hope you can make it.

I did it!! Boy yesterday was hard!! My kids asked for cookies (which they don't usually get) so I thought I would be nice and make a batch. Boy did those tempt me. I ended up way over eating on protein and such but at least I didn't eat a cookie!! Hahaha. I got to enjoy 1 funky end piece of ribeye, 2 burrito bowls, 3 hard boiled eggs, oh and two sparkling waters. I will take it! This morning I have 1 small funky end piece of ribeye (thankfully that's gone) and a couple hard boiled eggs. I don't know if I'll be hungry after work but if not I will enjoy a burrito bowl before going to watch botha football game and a cross country meet....in two different towns🤷.

Happy Monday!! Can you believe this is officially the end of September?!? Were you able to maintain beast mode for all of this month?? If not, no worries, were you able to have more good days than bad days this month??? Let's start our reflection of September today, what has been the best thing that has happened to you in the month of September???