Great idea for the OP, Apes, although my cravings aren’t pregnancy cravings …or they better not be, considering that I turned 60 a few months ago! :eek: When I was pregnant with my son (who is now 25), I craved taco salad, of all things, and ate it several times a week (one of the cafeterias had a taco salad bar, and yes I ate there when ever I could LOL it wasn’t expensive, fortunately). My son can’t stand Mexican food, though. I do love chocolate, though.
We have had a serious temperature drop in New Mexico! There is even snow in the northern and some central parts of the state, although we haven’t seen any in Albuquerque. It’s been all around the area, and definitely up in the mountains. I have had to turn on the heat in my bedroom (I normally don’t unless it is really cold out, and even then I usually have the window cracked). Winds are up to, which makes it feel even colder. BRR!!!
I’ve never been pregnant, but do get occasional food cravings. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of carbs. When I’m stressed or not feeling well, my body demands meat, cheese, and other protein. I tend to take the view that if I’m having food cravings, my body knows it needs something in the food I’m wanting, so I’d better give it what it needs.
Whatever language it started in, it’s become international.
I don’t think I’ve ever had any Pregnancy Cravings, you know, what with being a guy and all… Sometimes I get a craving for falafel. Luckily I’m somewhere where it’s relatively a relatively easy craving to satisfy
Well, English speaking international, at least. I think. I mean, I know what it means and the last time I lived in the US for any length of time, Reagan was busy getting shot at…
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ YAWN 'Tis 55 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 78 and maybe rain. 'Tis also waaaaaaaay foggy out.
Cravin’s hmmmm… well, cookies (duh!) as I am a serious cookieholic. I like beer but I don’t crave it. When I do get a big jonesin’ for sump’n I refer to it as a gnawin’ and a cravin’ which is a good ol’ southern term for a big cravin’. Pizza is probably a big cravin’ cause when I want it nuttin’ else will do until I get me some pizza.
Apes the twins are just lil’ ol’ cuties! Love the baby pic!
gotti hope you find suitable pain meds soonest. I’m also glad to know you have not taken to storin’ your cheesey poofs in panties.
Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas and alack, 'tis Monday thus irk purtification must commence.
Good morning! I got to come to work alone because my poor sweetie is feeling icky and he had a lousy night. He was going back to bed as I was leaving.
Foggy drive in today, not that you’d know it from the way some people were driving. Apparently “seeing” isn’t important to some drivers. :rolleyes: One yutz in a pickup was probably cussing me because I wasn’t speeding down a dark, winding stretch of road. Silly me - between not being able to see far ahead and not wanting to risk hitting a deer (again) I was doing about 35. So he was 12 seconds later getting to the intersection - boohoo!
Apes, the babby pic is adorable! And the photographer managed to get both of them in the cute mode simultaneously! When I was 11, with sibs 10, 9, 4, and newborn, my folks had a photographer come to the house to do a portrait of the lot of us. I was standing, holding the baby, and the other 3 were lined up on a bench in front of me. The three of them were all smiley, the baby was writhing and crying, and I was captured looking down at her - fortunately, I wasn’t shooting daggers at her with my eyes…
Hey, that gives me an idea - we need to post pics of ourselves when we were kids. That’s a MMP that’ll require some advance planning for some… like me… hmmmmmmm
Happy Monday, all! Christmas is 2 weeks from tomorrow, just in case you don’t have enough to panic about!
May I suggest that if you are craving carbs, you search out some more protein (in forms other than meat) in your diet? It seems to be the body’s way of trying to get more energy to grow the baby but, as we all know, too many simple carbs will just make a fat baby whereas protein will develop him/her without the excessive fat. You can also get lots of calcium not just from dairy but from legumes and from fresh green vegies. And don’t discount the value of drinking at least 3 litres of water a day - more in summer - which will keep your kidneys happy.
A friend, when she was pregnant the first time, made the decision to go organic wherever possible - she cut out all junk, sweets, and overly processed grains - and had a 13+ pound baby. So for her second pregnancy she kept all the “bad for you” foods in her diet, in moderation of course, and still had an 11+ pound baby.
rosie, I’m inclined to think some people just squeeze out big babies, purely based on personal anecdotes, of course. When I was in the Navy, there was a guy in our squadron whose wife had two monster-sized kids - I think one was over 14#!! :eek: I’d never met her, but he was a kinda short guy, so it’s not like he had linebacker genetics or anything. I wonder if the kids grew up to be exceptionally big. Doing the mental math, they’d be in their 30s by now… dang, I feel old.
Two drawings done (to be fair, they just had minor fixes) and now I’m diving into a 10-page monster drawing from the depths of, um, someplace dark and full of pages. Sure hope today goes fast…
Page two already! Dang what a buncha jibber-jabberers!
So begins the irk week. I should get motivated and dive in the pile o’ stuff awaitin’ me. Or not.
Tonight is my very last Vestry meetin’ over to the church house. YAY! Also a little cause I have enjoyed my three year term and have seen a lot of good stuff happen like payin’ off the mortgage. Now I shall have to figure out what to do with myself on the second Monday night of each month.
Mornin’. Its gonna be 74 here today. 74!!! WTH? Did someone forget to tell Mother Nature that its December. Did I just get transported to Australia or Florida or somewhere else besides southern VA in December?
Currently I be craving some cold weather so I can sit in front of the fake fire with the kittehs. Mostly I just crave salty things.
It went from a high in the 70s yesterday to snow on the rooftops at work today. Brrrrr.
Church choir is big into Christmas music, but we have a new-to-me director, and he’s not into the traditional stuff as much as I’d like. I’m happy to try some of the new songs and different arrangements, but I still want my figgy pudding, so to speak.
Oh, and I stayed up waaaaaay too late and only got five hours of sleep. Also, I need to send a Secret Santa gift to an international location, and I found out last night that today is the last day to ship Express Priority in order to get it there by Christmas. I don’t even want to know what the cost on that is going to be.
Oddly enough, I’m not craving food. I’m craving a cigarette. I quit 4 years ago but dang, I want to smoke.
Firday night the 6 pound tin of Harry London chocolates was delivered. I opened it, had 2, put the lid back on and stuck it in the garage. Now it’s at irk, hidden in the stacks. I hope there is some left for Christmas Day. Cuz some days, you just NEED chocolate at irk.
Although when I have a fuds craving, it’s for salt. Popcorn with butter, chips, stuff like that.
I hear ya WetOne I could eat an entire biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig bag of N.O.T. chips at one sittin’. To me those are the single serve bags. Thus I rarely buy ‘em. This is also why I will not buy a box of Little Debbie’s Swiss Rolls. I lurve those and as long as I know they’re in da cave I can’t stand it! The set there in the fridge tauntin’ me the evil things.
I should have known better than to attempt to order tires via teh intartoobz. I should have had 'em last week. Sears sent me an email to tell me they are on back order. Thus I have cancelled the order. I’ll just go to the tire place and get dang tires. Sheesh! Not from Sears though cause they have made da bear mad. I won’t buy ‘em from Sears just because of that. Matter of fact, I’d sooner buy tires from somebody sellin’ 'em on the side of the road than from Sears. I shall feel that way forever or until the next time I want to buy sump’n from Sears whichever comes first.
I do love chocolate, though.
