Thank you all very much for your comments and emails about our really big news. It was hard to keep quiet about the baby, the reason I wasn't posting much or visiting your websites hardly at all. I hope I replied to all of those who asked but in case I didn't, or if anyone else is wondering, my due date is December 5, and we are not finding out if it's a boy or a girl.
I have been supremely uninterested in food 90% of the time. Planning, cooking and eating meals have mostly been a struggle. Anything beyond toast, eggos, cheese slices and fruit is largely unappetizing, even now, at 5 months gone. We had some family come to town to visit and meal planning, which normally would have taken me an hour, took a solid week. I could not think of a single thing that I wanted to eat that would appeal to anyone else. Reading cookbooks or websites devoted to food is almost always out of the question.
But because it's just me and you here, I can tell you that there are the days when all I do is eat. EAT. On work days I'll have something for breakfast at home; toast or an eggo. Then I'll take my food to work - my "second breakfast" of cereal or yogurt or fruit, my lunch, and then some more fruit for the afternoon. Some days that's good enough. But then there are the days when I've eaten my second breakfast by 8:30 and by 10 I'm eating my lunch. And then someone walks in my office and I scramble to shove my bowl of stir fry in a drawer, and their all "Why does it smell like meat in here at 10 am?" and I'm all "It doesn't! Get out! What do you want!" and then by noon I'm in the grocery store forlornly wandering the aisles, looking for something that doesn't gross me out.
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Another thing I didn't tell you is that back in May Scott and I took a cruise to Alaska to celebrate our 8th anniversary. We had a truly wonderful time and saw many incredible things - whales, eagles, puffins, bears, moose, seals, glaciers. We ate off the ship at least once in all of the 3 ports we stopped in, but only one of those meals truly stood out - Tracy's King Crab Shack in Juneau.
We spotted it from the deck of the ship before we got off, and it reminded me of 5 years ago when we went to San Francisco and we found these stands that were serving up all this fresh seafood. Scott kept putting off eating at the stands and of course regretted it as soon as we were heading for the airport. I made sure that we walked over to check it out and when the lovely man behind the counter gave us a sample of their crab bisque, we were sold. I am not a huge crab fan (crab cakes, really only) but this was some damn good soup.
We shared a combo of bisque, crab cakes and a big leg. Eating crab with the love of my life while on holiday sitting by the ocean in Alaska? Pretty freakin' great.
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This is a long post, and it's taken me 5 days to get to this point. So I'll wrap it up with a picture from my ultrasound on Friday. Now it's possible I'm a little biased, but I think you'll agree that this might be the most beautiful baby IN THE WORLD.
I have been supremely uninterested in food 90% of the time. Planning, cooking and eating meals have mostly been a struggle. Anything beyond toast, eggos, cheese slices and fruit is largely unappetizing, even now, at 5 months gone. We had some family come to town to visit and meal planning, which normally would have taken me an hour, took a solid week. I could not think of a single thing that I wanted to eat that would appeal to anyone else. Reading cookbooks or websites devoted to food is almost always out of the question.
But because it's just me and you here, I can tell you that there are the days when all I do is eat. EAT. On work days I'll have something for breakfast at home; toast or an eggo. Then I'll take my food to work - my "second breakfast" of cereal or yogurt or fruit, my lunch, and then some more fruit for the afternoon. Some days that's good enough. But then there are the days when I've eaten my second breakfast by 8:30 and by 10 I'm eating my lunch. And then someone walks in my office and I scramble to shove my bowl of stir fry in a drawer, and their all "Why does it smell like meat in here at 10 am?" and I'm all "It doesn't! Get out! What do you want!" and then by noon I'm in the grocery store forlornly wandering the aisles, looking for something that doesn't gross me out.
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Another thing I didn't tell you is that back in May Scott and I took a cruise to Alaska to celebrate our 8th anniversary. We had a truly wonderful time and saw many incredible things - whales, eagles, puffins, bears, moose, seals, glaciers. We ate off the ship at least once in all of the 3 ports we stopped in, but only one of those meals truly stood out - Tracy's King Crab Shack in Juneau.
We spotted it from the deck of the ship before we got off, and it reminded me of 5 years ago when we went to San Francisco and we found these stands that were serving up all this fresh seafood. Scott kept putting off eating at the stands and of course regretted it as soon as we were heading for the airport. I made sure that we walked over to check it out and when the lovely man behind the counter gave us a sample of their crab bisque, we were sold. I am not a huge crab fan (crab cakes, really only) but this was some damn good soup. 
We shared a combo of bisque, crab cakes and a big leg. Eating crab with the love of my life while on holiday sitting by the ocean in Alaska? Pretty freakin' great.
__________________________________________This is a long post, and it's taken me 5 days to get to this point. So I'll wrap it up with a picture from my ultrasound on Friday. Now it's possible I'm a little biased, but I think you'll agree that this might be the most beautiful baby IN THE WORLD.
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