Pregnancy

I am now twenty-five weeks along. I feel a lot of movement every day and especially at night when I lay down. He kicks and kicks like crazy which I feel most often on the bottom left side of my stomach. This morning I was woken up at 5 by chief and could not go back to sleep. As I had been laying there for a while I started to feel a lot of movement. I put my hand on my stomach and enjoyed the moment. Then came a body part sticking out of my half circle stomach. I guess it is starting to get a little tight in there. I had an overwhelming feeling of gratitude. I am so lucky and blessed to be pregnant and have the experience of being a mother. What a miracle it is. I want to savor these moments and yet at the same time I can hardly wait to meet the little guy.

Cravings

Last pregnancy I wanted eggs any style ALL THE TIME. I do still want and like scrambled eggs late at night when I feel hungry, luckily my husband is nice and always makes them for me when I ask. But with this pregnancy I want most everything I see or hear about eating. We watched a TV show where they were eating spaghetti, guess what we had for dinner the next night... spaghetti. I do seem to really like onions right now, especially red onions on sandwiches so I am hitting up Kneaders a lot for lunch. I am also liking salty things and garlicky stuff. I was craving garlic bread twists from The Pizza Factory so we have picked them up twice this week. The other thing that I want is the Chef salad from Ligori's. So yummy with chunks of ham and pepperoni, cheese, green peppers and the best ranch dressing ever. It is making my mouth water just thinking about it. Notice I am listing foods to pick up and eat so I don't have to make them myself. I have been terrible about cooking lately. Maybe someday soon I will start a better dinner routine.