Thanks for all the messages, texts, notes, and overall encouragement and joy from the last post. I have been asked a number of times about how I’ve been feeling – being pregnant and all. For the most part, I’ve been feeling like my same old self, except for couple weeks there where I felt extremely tired at random times during the day. I almost never nap when Maggie naps, but more than once I’ve curled up next to her and let myself fall asleep.
Aside from being tired, I’ve been really into random foods. When I come home from the grocery store we play a game of “What Did The Pregnant Lady Buy This Time,” and there is always some item that leaves Barry shaking his head laughing.
A few weeks ago Maggie and I met up with Charlyn and her boys at the splash park. Connor had a little container of Cheese-Its and I couldn’t get them off my mind because they looked so good. I texted Barry about how delicious they looked and he encouraged me not to get any – since he tends to eat too many on his own. I held off and successfully made it home without stopping to get a box of Cheese-Its. That night during dinner, Barry, that stinker, brought them up again and suddenly my mouth was salivating again. I thought to myself that if I still wanted them the next morning, I’d go to the store and get myself a box for breakfast. Tasty, right?
As I rocked Mags that night, Barry took Syd for a walk – just like he does almost every night. I heard them slip in and out of the house and thought nothing of it, but when I came out of Maggie’s room guess what was sitting on the coffee table!!!! A perfect little bowl of Cheese-Its!! Barry and Syd went on a mission to the store to get some for me…..so romantic! (By the way, when we told this story to my grandparents, my grandpa told me not to tell any more stories of Barry being romantic because Grandma might gets ‘some ideas’ that maybe Grandpa could be more romantic. So funny.)
Since the Cheese-It incident I have mostly been feasting on fresh fruit and fizzy drinks. The other day I had corn on the cob and a PB & J for lunch….which sounds utterly disgusting to me now. And the worst thing food related? Shrimp and fish, my favorite of all favorites, are on the black list. They smell, taste and look gross. So sad. Thankfully I don’t crave The Burger the same way I did when I was pregnant with Maggie. I do tend to get nauseous in the evening time, which I tend to call Evening Sickness (you know, opposite of Morning Sickness) and I still am sleeping like a rock – just not tired through the day anymore.