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 Friday!! I hope you're having a wonderful week! Today is Nathaniels last day at his robotics camp, he's been having an amazing time this week! I also recently got a promotion at my job, so Saturday we are going to get dressed up and go to a nice dinner with the whole family and celebrate. Church Sunday and then prepping for the week ahead.

Do you have any fun plans for this weekend? Temptations you are going to plan to avoid?

Hi Gang!
Sorry I've been a little scarce. Work is working (new added responsibilities I'm not sure I want.) We've been haying and pulling weeds and I decluttered and cleaned my spice cabinets. (you know, the one that holds all the cooking extras.) I don't feel too bad. The oldest spice was only 2009. I threw about 8 containers and restocked today.
We also ran over to another town to get new RO filters for our system. Then Farmer wanted to eat at Cracker Barrel. Can I say, as carnivores, just don't. There are no sides like cottage cheese. I should have gotten the burger, but I went with grilled chicken tenders and ended up with breaded ones. I ate 2 and brought the rest home. I could have sent them back to the kitchen but it took so long to get our meal as it was, that I just ate enough to get something in my stomach. We probably won't go back again for a very long time, if ever.

Otherwise my meals have been coffee protein shakes, beef sticks with sides of either Carn Snax or purse bacon...