December 16, 2009

LOST: My desire to cook

Has anyone seen it? My husband might pay a hefty reward if you found it! Er...well, maybe not, as was evidenced by his request last night: "Can we have McDonalds tonight?" Haha. (For the record, my response was an eager "Yes, I don't want to cook!")

I don't know what my problem is. Maybe it's because nothing sounds good to me. Why would I want to cook if I have zero desire to eat the food? The foods I do desire to eat? French fries. That's pretty much it. Oh, and Twizzlers. Yep, that's about it. It's not morning sickness or anything like that. The thought of cooking doesn't make me want to go running for the nearest toilet or anything, like it did during the first trimester. It just sounds like a horrible idea. This is so foreign to me, since I really love to cook usually. (I also really love to eat usually, so not having the desire to eat anything is REALLY weird and I'm having a difficult time getting used to the idea, i.e. I have actually cried, real tears, because I knew that I needed to eat but I just didn't want anything!) I'm just hoping that this change will eventually go away. Even if it lasts the entire pregnancy, that's fine, just as long as it will come back after, because that would be really sad for me. I don't know how you people who don't like to cook do it, because right now, all I can think about it the fact that I promised Lee that I would make chili for dinner, and how much I just don't even want to make it at all. What would I rather have? Well, nothing comes to mind. Except maybe some waffle fries from Chick-Fil-A. But even that's pushing it :)

I've even been doing my regular holiday baking (begrudgingly, and only because some of our friends and co-workers have come to expect their annual treat box) and I haven't sampled one.thing. Not a cookie, not a pecan, not a piece of toffee, nothing. This is NOT normal! One second thought, maybe I should plan all of my pregnancies around the holidays if this is what happens. Yes, every other Thanksgiving and Christmas I will be pregnant. That way I won't gorge myself on pounds of sugar and chocolate during that time frame. Although I will still be gaining weight, so I'm not sure if that logic would really work.

I have been extremely busy at work this week (I know! I can hardly believe it myself!), and it's going to last until I leave for the holidays (my last workday of the year is Tuesday morning, then I'm off until the 2nd!) So I haven't really had time to blog lately, and now that I'm sitting here, I've forgotten all of the great blogging ideas I've had over the week! So, I'll just leave you with this, my 12 and 14 week bump pictures. I finally took one last week!
Week 12: Nov. 21-27
Week 14: Dec 5 - 11
And a totally gratuitous picture of Lee and the girls. Isabelle is smiling :) (Ahem, ignore the open shelves that we have yet to get doors for. It's only been 5 months since we finished those things)

11 comments:

Mrs. Dew said...

Girl I know the feeling! Nothing sounds good to me AT ALL either! Only ice cream, toast, and now pizza rolls. So weird!

Mrs. Wife said...

I hope you get the urge to eat again soon!

Taylor @ The Undomestic Momma said...

I was the same way for a lot of my pregnancy! I loved those nasty $1 frozen pizzas and that was all I ate for the first like 6 months...breakfast, lunch and dinner haha!

Ashley @ KiwisandCocktails said...

Ok, that picture of Lee and the pups is SOOO CUTE. and what you looked like at 12 weeks pregnant is what I look like now (not pregnant) ha. Well, I may even look like you at 14 weeks. hahaha. I REALLY HOPE I have no desire to pig out like you have right now. Really, I am jealous. You are soooo freaking cute!

katandkarl said...

your belly looks a-mazing. love the pics. i didn't eat a lot of variety while pregs. i won't tell you what i did eat a lot of b/c it might make you vom. ;)

Jax said...

Your belly=adorable!!!! And um....I dont have any desire to cook either, but I dont think I'm preggo.. haha.. ;) Love that you're baking anyway.. that's kinda cute. :) Lee and the girls make me smile! And I also think fries and twizzlers sound good. Just saying. XOXO!

In this wonderful life... said...

cute little baby belly!!! I have no desire to cook either. This baby doesn't even like to be in a room with food cooking! hope you are feeling good!!

Kaitlin said...

You look so cute! Kudos to you on the baking-the treats Lee brought Steve and the crew at work were delish! I don't want to cook much either- I finish preparing it all and then it doesn't look appetizing to me anymore. And, I have NO desire to bake cookies next week for the friends/family...not b/c it doesn't sound good, but b/c I'm tired! Fries are always a nice dinner option :)

Tiffany said...

You are so funny! I say just take the break from cooking! Our local grocery store has tons of "ready made" dinners that are fresh and good. I would make that a habit. :)

Your baby belly is precious! And I love, love your pups!

Jenny DB said...

Your bump pics are adorable... seriously:) and as for cooking.. pmmph.. who needs it!!??

Meredith said...

Where did you go? I miss the belly updates!! And I could have sworn I left a comment on this one but I guess I didn't--you look adorable!! :)