Feeling better...

For most that follow me on facebook, you may have noticed a slightly (sarcastic) raging, hormonal post on Monday morning. For those that don't, here is what happened.

Sunday night's dinner (mentioned in my previous post) was phenomenal. Wasn't so phenomenal the second time, if you know what I mean. We went to bed late Sunday night after watching some football. I remember climbing into bed and dozing off around midnight. 2 very short hours later, something woke me up that never has before. Nausea. Really really bad nausea. I lay there thinking, "if I can just go back to sleep, maybe this will go away". An hour passed. Still there. Only this time, stronger. I couldn't get to the bathroom faster. For the next 5 hours, I camped out in the same spot. No sleep. Not even sorta. Tried breakfast and it made it worse. Doubled over and weak, I managed to get myself dressed for work, and headed out the door. I cried the whole drive to work. I'm sure most of it was from exhaustion and my swirling hormones, but I still felt stupid for just crying about it. For the remainder of my very long day, I battled being tired, nauseous and extremely frustrated. I counted down the hours before I got to go home. The drive home was hard as I nearly had to stop twice to pull over and relieve my nausea. I pulled into my driveway and did 2 things: took my night time nausea meds at 5:30 and changed into pajamas. At about 8:30, Travis woke me with pasta and homemade sauce he spent a good hour on. My stomach couldn't take it. I took about 5 bites and was done. I felt so bad but I know he understands. We finished watching the Jets game, which was terrible to say the least, and I was back down for the count. I slept all night long and woke up feeling better than I had in a while.

The last couple of days have been great. I have had some random food cravings but NO NAUSEA (PRAISE THE LORD)!!!! Today, my food craving was cookie cake. So on my lunch break, I went to Memorial City Mall and got a nice-size slice of cookie cake from Great American Cookie Company.

I ate about half of it before baby said "okay mom, enough!" It was sooooo good! Yesterday, I had a bad craving for boneless buffalo wings so I was thrilled when Travis said he wanted Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. He read my mind. Afterwards, we went to Wal-Mart where Travis bought the new game Halo Reach. Well if he gets something new, so does mommy and baby! Right?! I splurged and got all the soundtracks from the first season of Glee (there are 4 CDs). Baby got some adorable onesies. Since we still don't know the sex, we went neutral.

Today after work, I am heading over to the Nelson's to take care of Ashlee while her parents enjoy a date night out before their second little bundle of joy arrives! Ashlee was a toddler in my preschool class I taught. The Nelson's are also who we bought Travis's motorcycle from. It will be nice to see them and earn some extra money.

This weekend is packed full of plans. Tomorrow night, we are heading over to my inlaws to have dinner with that side of the family. Saturday morning, Travis is playing an intense game of flag football. He is more than ready. That afternoon we will be getting him fitted for his tuxedo for the Hinson/Zeller wedding in just a couple of weeks and also looking for SUVs for me. What better way to end that day than to spend it celebrating a marriage of 50 years?! It isn't often that you find couples that have been together that long, as sad as that is to say. I am so excited to see family and use this time to celebrate this special couple. Sunday, I hope we will get to go to church. I pray this baby will chill out for a bit so that we don't miss anymore. Even though our church is broadcasted via the internet, it's just not the same as being there.

And now for the most important news of the week: I won in fantasy football. Ha. Okay so it's not the most important news but now you know. My first opponent was one Mr. Chris Walker. I pride myself in saying, I have never lost to him in the now 3 years of playing. TAKE THAT! The first week is only behind us but I am currently leader of our league by several points. This next week, I take on Michaela. I am really confident of another win, especially with my lineup. Check back later for more fantasy updates in my next blogs...oh yeah and about the baby too. ;-]

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