School and Sickness

Sunday was my first experience with morning sickness. Of course we sat front and center of the church on the one day I feel just yucky. Luckily I had a piece of gum to chew on to help distract me from the discomfort. I dealt with a little nausea for the rest of the day, but nothing too major. Then, Monday rolled around. I was a little worried about Monday being that working with 23 kindergarteners can be exhausting within itself. It was right about 7am, when I was leaving my house that it kicked in! My principal came in my classroom and she could see it written all over my face. I tried my best to hide it, but feeling like you have a stomach virus when working is not a fun combo. I was managing until I started getting really bad cramps. They came in spurts and lasted for about 5 minutes. I finally called my doctor b/c they were so bad. Praise God that by the time they called me back they had gone away. They told me that is was perfectly normal, as long as there was no spotting. They think it might be b/c I laid low over the weekend and then went back to school and was more active than usual.

Every night when we go to bed Brian prays for me and baby. Needless to say that last night we prayed for my morning sickness to not bother me too much at school the next day. God was so good to me and granted me a better day today!

I'm starting to learn more tricks of the trade. I was lucky to learn about Cheerios. MMM... that and Fazoli's spaghetti are my two new loves. I've hit the stage where nothing sounds good and I just don't want to eat. The tricky part is if you don't eat, you feel worse. I literally ate Cheerios ALL day today. My husband is trying to understand why I didn't want his spaghetti and that I just had to have Fazoli's. And to be honest... I'm still trying to figure that one out. There are so many things that don't make sense to me anymore. It must be this shrinking brain.

So what have I learned about pregnancy these past few days: Sickness may stink... really bad... but that there is a greater reality that it will TOTALLY worth it when you get to hold that little baby in your arms.