I sucked it up today

Ok, first off, I don't think I explained our u/s pictures and where everything is. The baby's head is on the right in both pictures. You can see arm/leg buds in both pictures. In the first picture, Baby Schmidt is facing the camera (I wonder if we have a little diva or just a cooperative baby). You can easily see two little arms and legs in the first picture. In the second picture, it's a little harder to tell if the bulge in the middle is the heart bulge or arms...the baby is facing more 'up' I believe.

So on to today. I woke up this morning and was not feeling the greatest. The feelings got worse as I continued to get ready but since I had a preschooler coming in for a screening, an IEP after school, and a hair appointment, I decided to suck it up and go in. I almost lost my cookies several times while getting ready but kept myself in check. I made it to work (a Davenport elementary day, meaning I'd be up and running all over the school most of the day). Beginning of mission accomplished. My preschooler came and cried half the time he was there. He's three. Needless to say, he's coming back since I have no idea how his language/artic truly is from 5 minutes of silence and 10 minutes of barely talking. Then I had a kindergartner and helped our psych translate his highly unintelligible speech for some cognitive testing. I went back to my room and since I was beyond fatigued, ready to be sick any moment, and had quite the headache going (since early yesterday) so after some pregnant friend (and one not pregnant friend) consultation, I decided to take the rest of the day and go home. Mrs. Grass' chicken noodle soup sounded like something I could handle so I stopped at Walmart on my way home and got some. Here's the bonus - yesterday, Dr. Coleman said that complex carbs can help with morning sickness and that white powdered donuts can be especially helpful - Adam is my witness! Guess what was on the first shelf as I walked into the store - white powdered donut holes. I grabbed a package of them on my way to soup...and after a 3-hr nap, some soup and donut holes, I'm feeling a bit better. Whew. My headache is still an issue and I took one acetaminophen that didn't help much. I'm usually an advil/ibuprophen girl so maybe that's why. Perhaps it's a pregnancy headache. Who knows. I'm just so thankful that I took a day to rest and will hopefully feel better for our ride home tomorrow for the best (short) weekend ever! 8 weeks today! 2/3 of the way through Trimester #1...