As most of you know, we recently found out that we are expecting Baby #5! This means some slight modifications to our rules...a.k.a...there are no more rules. During my first trimester, and just a bit beyond it, the Palmer family goes into survival mode. I am usually very sick, with a crazy version of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum. It severely effects my ability to function as a normal human being, and the last thing I want to think about is cooking. I still do what I can, but I do relax things a little by buying bread and yogurt rather than making them, and we tend to eat out more, simply because there will likely be several days on which I can barely make it from the bed to the couch in the morning, then back to bed at night.
I am happy to report, however, that while I am haven't felt "good" for the past few days, since my symptoms started, I have still been feeling well enough to do everything I need to. We did eat out one day this week, and I felt pretty sick after that, probably because of all of the yucky ingredients that are inevitably in most foods you would order out, unless you eating at a restaurant that is very intentionally avoiding such ingredients.
Because I would like to stay feeling my best for everyone's sake, we will continue to avoid processed foods as much as possible, since that seems to be the only thing that aggravates my stomach. That being said, there will probably times that we eat out, and not at the healthiest places, because we live live in the real world, and I won't always be prepared with something else or just won't feel like making anything, and my husband is always gracious enough to excuse me from my duties during this time.
Would you be willing to pray with us and for us during this time? While it is an unpleasant season, it is never wasted. God uses this time, when I am able to do very little for myself, to remind me that I am always reliant on Him for all things, at my best or at my worst.
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