Maybe I'll cook this week

So I realize that I've been a pretty terrible blogger.  But I've got valid excuses!  If you want to hear them, listen up, because I don't plan to talk about them very often (at least not as the subject of any posts, they both deserve their own blogs, which most people would not be interested in reading).

1.  I'm Pregnant!!  YaaaaAAAAAayyyyyYYYY!!  (Like Snooki!)
2.  I've been diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis.  Booo!!  (Like JFK?)

Both seem to be related (at least hormonally), and both have meant that I haven't spent much time in the kitchen during the past few months.  I had lots of food aversions in the beginning (and was also a little bit afraid to eat), but now my appetite is on fire, and my medication seems to be improving my digestion.  I avoided the stove like the plague for a while (unless it was baking french fries or hash browns), but that's all changing fast, and at the rate I'm going the past few weeks I'll be cooking up a storm again in no time.  In fact, I'm thinking about baking some cookies in a few minutes, so that I can eat them all.  Seriously, all of them.

Here's how things have been going down:

Right after the positive pregnancy test -

• LOVED avocado, chicken, eggs, and chocolate milk.

First trimester -

• HATED chicken!!!  Could not be in the same room as it!  
• Also hated pretty much everything else, including chocolate (I never thought I'd see the day!)
• Crazy heartburn, so nothing spicy, and no tomatoes, peppers, or onions.
• Survived on noodles with parmesan cheese, peanut butter, and any type of fried potato.  Salt and Vinegar chips amazingly seem to cure nausea (even though the idea of them sometimes caaaauses nausea...).  Also Blueberry "KIND" bars were tolerable.
• Too tired to eat anyway.

Month 4 -

• Crazy craving for chicken nuggets.  Also into cream cheese, and still loving potato chips.  
• Less nauseous, but still tough to find anything appealing.
• I want spicy food, but still can't eat it.
• Less tired... but still really freaking tired.

Month 5 -

• I now dip the potato chips into the cream cheese.
• Ice cream!
• Loving fresh fruit (though because of colitis I can't eat much of it)
• Still not into any vegetables (colitis says "no" to a lot of these too)
• Eating most things again in small amounts (even chicken!), except spicy food.  But the idea of cooking still makes me tired.  Plus, tons of the stuff in my normal repertoire is either spicy or includes cooked tomatoes... not so great for heartburn.  So I need some energy and creativity!  The other night I boiled noodles, sauteed half a kielbasa, and mixed it all together with canned broccoli and cheese soup.  I called that cooking.  Not very delicious, but progress!

So as you can see, writing about life (and being hungry) has not been very high on my list.  But I think it might be coming back into favor sometime soon, as my appetite is going crazy!  And (some of) the plants in my garden are growing even faster than my baby (who is allegedly somewhere between a banana and a cantaloupe this week... though in my experience those are two very different sizes!)!