Happy Friday! If you are on Instagram and saw my stories you'll know that we had an insane 24 hours yesterday. Long story short, as we were going to bed last night we realized we had a pipe burst inside the wall and our whole bedroom floor was flooded. It was the pipe behind the toilet in our master bathroom. We turned the water off overnight and thankfully we were able to get a plumber out in the morning to fix the leak. After all our recent issues with the other leak (in the same bathroom) and all the mold issues, we are getting a full remediation company out here to do some water removal and clean up. Unfortunately it's going to be a long process and take several weeks until we get our bedroom and our toilet back. 😭😭
Oh and another fun discovery, a nest of EMPTY reptile eggs was found behind the wall when they went to repair the leak. 🤢
I'll tell you what that even as long as I've been eating this way, there is nothing I wanted more yesterday than to just eat my stress and frustrations! I ended up skipping breakfast in all the chaos, and by lunch we still didn't have water so I just ordered Buffalo Wild Wings burger patties and wings for us all for lunch. I'll call that a win. How do you end up handling those stressful situations?
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 ...
On week days I try to sit with the sunrise. I sit have a moment with God while I sip on coffee and hug my dog. It is so peaceful. Today I had 2 leftover burger patties, 2 smoked chicken thighs, then air fried pork belly we smoked yesterday. It was a great day of eating!! We got a lot accomplished today. We spent our labor day laboring...hahaha! All our weeds and the vegetable garden is taken care of tho. That was a huge task!
Happy Labor Day for those in the US, I believe it's a holiday in Canada today as well (Also Labour Day but just spelled different 😂). Do you have the day off today? I am going to walk this morning and then go get a massage this afternoon to work out some of the kinks I've developed from all my traveling recently.
We are one week into September and our beast mode challenge. How are things going so far? Just remember you aren't stuck with the same goals you set at the beginning of the month. It's totally okay to make adjustments as you go if needed. It's also okay to change your non-negotiable if you haven't been able to stick to it. Find something very simple and attainable that will help you build some momentum.
What's your non-negotiable for this week?
If you're interested we can do a livestream tomorrow (Tuesday) before I leave again on Wednesday.
