I have to celebrate yesterday.

It was a rough day. Really rough. Not out of the ordinary rough, just unplanned and so not what I wanted to be doing on a Saturday rough. Bug woke up with a normal temp and bright eyes and by 10:30am she had a high fever and was throwing up what little she had eaten, which wasn't much. This was the third time in a row that after the M*trin wore off, her fever spiked, she threw up and well, she'd had a fever since Thursday night so we were a bit nervous. Hubby wanted her seen ~ on a Saturday morning????? ~ although I was ready to ride it out and see.

Well, so not what I wanted to do on our one day together. Bug can't help being sick but I'd much rather just snuggle in with her on a couch then hunt down a doctor for her. I won't bore you with the details but let's just say that the trek to see the doc involved getting lost, waiting for three hours, two pharmacies and a near collision when I almost ran a red light. I was exhausted and stressed and frustrated.

But you know what???

I didn't eat to solve it. I thought about how good a couple R.ee.se's peanut butter cups would be while I waited at the pharmacy, you know, since we hadn't had lunch at it was 3:30pm. Or maybe a bag of chips... after all, I deserved it for all the stress right? But I didn't. We ate a few pretzels I had in my purse and I stuck in a piece of gum and when I got home I had some veggie soup for zero points and went to take a nap.

So yay.... yay. I did have a cookie later that night with my chai, but that is the great thing about my eating program... there is room for flexibility and having a treat now and then without screwing the whole thing up. And I didn't screw up. I ate well even in the middle of stress. And I hope I can do it again when a day like this happens.

And for what it's worth, it could be very soon, like this morning, since we are yet again, home sick from church. Sigh... I can do this. Off to get dressed and snuggle in to watch a movie with my kiddos. And pray for peace in all of this.

But yeah... yay!