Mmmmmm Ice Cream

Call me crazy, but there's a special place in my heart for a Culver's hot fudge sundae. On this day, James and I were sharing a hot fudge sundae sub FOD (FOD= Flavor Of Day which happened to be Brownie Thunder on this particular day). Although he didn't get any of the chocolatey deliciousness it didn't stop him from keeping a close watch.

A Tale of Two Dinners

Last night I had two dinners. Ugh, it makes my belly ache just thinking about it now but at the time it was marvelous.

I first had a very healthy, well balanced vegetable chicken curry with brown rice. Sounds awesome- right? It was good but just okay because I knew once I started cooking it that it wasn't what I would have chosen.

After the first dinner we cleared up and sat down for some Thursday night tv. Around 8:15 pm a commercial came on for Domino's cheesebread. I have never had Domino's cheesebread, and I have only had Domino's one time in my life. But at that moment, My stomach said, "yes" even though my brain said, "ummm, remember that bowl of curry you had 90 minutes ago?". My stomach won. We don't have a Domino's in our town so I went to the freezer and grabbed a frozen pizza and put it in the oven.

James promised me he would have some because I said I wasn't going to cook it if only I was going to eat. Bless him :) Cooked to perfection, I enjoyed it greatly and it soooo hit the spot. James did not have a piece because he has something I lack: self control.

And the cold leftovers made a phenomenal lunch today might I add...

Cravings

I haven't really felt like I have had too many cravings but James would probably disagree. There are a few things I can clearly identify as an "out of the ordinary need". I have a really hard time saying craving and calling anything a craving- which I find kind of odd. Maybe it's that I don't want to feel like I am totally out of control over my own body- yet...

So anyhoo, back to the "out of the ordinary needs" I have experienced thus far:

Western french dressing- this is a new one because for a few weeks I was vehemently opposed to eating greens, but since about 10 days ago I have enjoyed a salad nearly every day with a generous helping of this tangy, sweet, delicious sauce.

Eggs and breakfast foods- I could eat eggs three meals a day and ya know what I might just do that one of these days! They're so versatile and delicious and super fast to make. We have been enjoying breakfast for dinner at least once a week for the past month or so and it's always been welcomed with open arms. I went through a waffle/pancake thing, then realized it wasn't really the vessel that I wanted it was the syrup. We had some 100% organic maple syrup and it just tasted horrible. I went to the store and staring at all of the bottles realized that what I truly wanted was a bottle of the fake butter flavored corn syrup "poser" that they label as maple syrup. So I bought a small bottle and oh.my.god.- did it hit the spot. There's still half a bottle left so I'm not felling bad about it. Really, I'm not.

Oranges and Orange Juice- I'm not sure I can attribute this to the baby because every winter I go through some sort of Vitamin C withdrawal and start craving the citrus goods then too. But for blogging purposes we're calling this a baby craving!

General Crap- Suddenly out of the blue I will want Pizza Hut even though I may have just finished making a perfectly fine dinner. It tastes like gruel and I know I won't be satisfied until I have a taste of that hand tossed pizza. This happened just tonight. Perfectly good crockpot of BBQ pork waiting at home for us and I just couldn't even bear the thought of eating it.

The thing I never realized before about being pregnant is that you are hungry all of the time, but you can't eat a regular sized meal because then you feel terrible. So it's something to perfect- not getting too hungry but then not eating too much. Both lead to feeling miserable. For now I shall indulge my cravings as they come and embrace this whole experience!