Sunday Morning Visitors

Today was a CRAZY day. We woke up pumped and ready to go to church where my husband and I have been running the preschool children’s ministry program. This makes Sunday a rush of morning. My husband and I get the kiddos ready , scarf breakfast down, and then rush to church to set up our area (Our church is a church plant that is currently meeting in the city high school).
This morning God had other plans for us…. Visitors. Our main floor bathroom had a train of ants coming in the heat vent all the way across the bathroom to my daughter’s lunch pail. We rushed to try and clear them out of the bathroom and spray outside before they made their way into the kitchen too. Aaron and Julia ended up having to leave to get the children’s ministry set up and Sarah and I stayed to finish up and then we headed to church too.
Crazy, unexpected mornings like this fuel my desire to eat. I’m sure it’s an emotional eating thing and I need to come up with a better solution. Of course it doesn’t help that after getting so stressed I headed to church where there always is an overabundance of food. Generally none of the food is healthy, today was no exception. Today it was pastries and juice before service and barbeque pork sandwiches, chips, and marshmallow/ fruit salad for lunch after the service. I was available to avoid the pastries and juice before service, but I didn’t have time to pack an alternate lunch for after the service so I had a bag of BBQ potato chips and a BBQ pork sandwich.
Dinner this evening was Chinese food from the local grocery store. This was definitely not what I had planned. It was good but it was definitely stress eating. Tomorrow I really need to work hard at making healthy choices and staying away from the fast food. I just need to take this one meal at a time. I have a tendency to blow it for one meal and then figure I’ve blown it for the day so I just keep eating. This is a habit I have to break if I want to have success long term.