Pregnancy Symptoms

I started this blog as I wanted to write down my experiences from MY perspective.  If anything offends you that I write....you only have me to blame.  I say all that because I need to make that abundantly clear before I write today's entry.  This is from MY perspective.....and I think it is hilarious and, yes, even cute (which is a word I don't use often).

For the last 4-5 weeks Em has been experiencing cravings and other "symptoms" of pregnancy.  Now some of these symptoms are 100% legitimate and not to be questioned.  This blog entry is dedicated to "the others". 

Many of you know that I am an uncle yet again.  My latest little nephew arrived in October.  I went to visit my brother and his girlfriend, Jenna, about a month before she was due.  We started talking about food cravings and she shared with me an odd craving that she was having that I found particularly fascinating.  She had a major craving for........wait for it..........sand.  That's right.  Sand!  Like what you find at a beach.  Just to be fair, I don't think she ever actually satisfied that craving, but the craving itself is very funny. 

Now having said that.....let's fast forward to my wife's cravings. 

I've heard of women who craved odd pairings like ice cream and tuna fish or pickles and saur kraut or something like that.  These women crave things that they never (in their right mind) would ever even think about.  What does Em crave?  Ice Cream.  Twizzlers.  Grapefruit juice.  Sour candy.  So, in other words, everything she loved before she was preganant.......she is "craving" now.  How odd!?!?!  I like to tease her that those things are not "cravings" but just an excuse to eat more of what you always enjoyed.  (I know better than to press her too much on that....just enough to show her that I'm jokiing about it.)

She is also "shocked" by how tired she is, but I try to remind her that she always needed more sleep and when she doesn't get her slotted 10+ hours of sleep she always slept more the following day.  However, I've learned not to push that issue and just let her say it's because she's pregnant. 

A little less than 7 months to go.......I'm buying stock in every ice cream company that is publically traded.