Being Sick and Pregnant and the Latest

So they say it is worse being sick when pregnant. I wholeheartedly agree. Yesterday I came down with some food poisoning. My sister was poisoned and Grant was also poisoned, however I was the only one who vomited. I think my body reacted more violently because I am pregnant. But I very much like the food poisoning better than the actual flu. My full fledge symptoms lasted maybe 6 hours and then most of the day I laid on the couch, and as long as I didn't get up  I felt okay. With the flu you feel horrible no matter what position you are in. I feel blessed that I could find relief from just laying there.

Also Grant was being the perfect son and also taking advantage of my weakness by running rampant around the house and watching videos for the whole day.  He wasn't upset, well maybe just a little, about me not being able to play with him. He was actually very content. Usually on days with flu like symptoms he throws many tantrums and cries because he wants to play with me. Anyway, so that was also a blessing. I prayed that the sickness would pass quickly and that I would be able to bear it well, yet another blessing and prayer that was answered. Today I was weak from not eating yesterday but I finally got my house in order, cleaned the toilet from the sick day, and now I just need to vacuum and dust to feel like the house is spick and span. I even did several loads of laundry and fit in some fun outside time with Grant. There is just something that happens when you are sick that makes you appreciate your day to day monotonous chores and having this great desire to work and do those things you need to do. I definitely made up for the sickness yesterday and will probably sleep well tonight from working myself so hard. But I really enjoyed it.

The other thing about being pregnant and sick is also dependent upon how far along you are. With Carly being so big,  she moves and you feel it well. So with gastrointestinal upsets as well as nausea, when the baby moves around and kicks randomly it instantly makes your more nauseous and gurgley inside. Not my favorite moment of pregnancy. But funny story, the midwife has started to ask about counting kicks and I always feel like she moves enough but then I started to have doubts. So I started paying attention more and I realized she wasn't moving a ton. So I said a prayer to bring me at peace about her and to help her move to lessen my worries. Well ever since then she has been moving like crazy. I'm either hyperaware or she really is "kicking" it up a notch.

In other news we did Family Home Evening tonight and went mini golfing. We haven't gone in a while because we felt that Grant had lost his excitement about it since we went so often. We waited a couple months and decided it had been long enough and went. He loved it! He even started at the normal first putting spot and then would pick up his ball after a few attempts over there, and bring it really close to the hole. He was focused and followed us to every hole and also waited his turn well by standing on the sidelines. Basically it was wonderful and little guidance needed. He just followed suit instead of running around and throwing tantrums about weird things and so on. It was great. We topped it off by going to Yogurtland because I had a buy one get one free coupon as well as 3 oz of free yogurt. Fun fun!