i NEED one!!!

When I was pregnant with Noah, I had a rotation of monthly cravings, which I am pretty sure I wrote about when I announced on my blog that I was pregnant with him. They were generally pretty healthy and not too "out there" cravings. Tyler never had to go out of his way to go get me something in the middle of the night, and it has been pretty much the same with this pregnancy so far.

Week 7 was my sickest week with this one, where I could hardly eat anything, and that is when I am pretty sure most of my coworkers put 2 and 2 together. Usually for lunch I will bring the leftovers of whatever we had for dinner the night before, but this particular week, all I could handle was Wheat Thin crackers with cottage cheese and if I was lucky, a cutie orange. That was all I ate for I would say, probably 2 weeks straight. Needless to say, I lost weight at the beginning of this pregnancy just like I did with Noah.

I went through another bagel and cream cheese phase.

One week all I wanted was kiwi.

Apples have been a staple food since about Week 12.

From Week 15 I have wanted oranges.

I always want cereal. Always. It was the same way with Noah. I could live off of cereal. Even when I am not pregnant. Rice Chex, Multigrain cheerios, Life, Special K with red berries, and then there's Honey Grahams...those are the cereals I could eat all the time, all day, everyday.

For the past two weeks for lunch, all I have wanted to eat for lunch is this amazing recipe that I got from my friend Nicole. We make it in the crockpot on Sunday, and then I eat it for lunch all week long and never get tired of it. Mango salsa chicken. Yum! Let me tell you what it is: 5 chicken breasts and half a container of mango peach salsa cooked together in the crockpot, piled on a tortilla with rice, black beans, and avocado. Those ingredients together are heaven! I think that's what we will make for every Sunday dinner until the end of time.

And finally, the only horribly sweet thing that I have been craving only recently, I can't even have. It is driving me crazy. The Smores' Blizzard from Dairy Queen. It is a seasonal summer treat at Dairy Queen, and they don't even have the ingredients except for in the summer. I told Tyler that I needed it the other day even though I knew what the outcome would be, so we went, I told the workers what I needed, and they said, "Well we have some things that might be similar, but it definitely won't be the same." I was willing to try anything. So they mixed together marshmallow fluff, pie crust, and chocolate shavings. It was awful. It made me so sad. I had to come to the realization that I will not get this wondrous treat until the summer time. Devastating.