Beer Cheese Soup

I got my first real craving this week - beer cheese soup!

I met a friend for lunch Sunday, and ordered soup & a sandwich. The restaurants soup of the day was beer cheese. SO, I thought I would try it,I have only eaten it twice in my life, and I just thought it was okay then, but it sounded like it would go good with my sandwich. Well, their soup sucked. It tasted neither like beer, nor like cheese. The stuff was terrible! I sent it back and got fries instead.

But for some reason, after that, I NEEDED beer cheese soup! Like, I wanted beer cheese soup as bad as my poor sex-deprieved hubby probably wants to get it on. I was horny for beer cheese soup. Ha ha ha! Everything else I tried to eat just tasted flat and unappetizing.

Of course, hubby wouldn't go out to eat Monday night, because Heroes was on, but I managed to convince him that we had to go on Tuesday for sure.

We went to a little local bar that has beer cheese soup on there regular menu, so I was hoping it would be good. My gawd. Heaven in a bowl! I swear I have never been so satisfied in my entire life as I was sitting in that bar eating my bowl of soup.

DH thought I was crazy. He's like "I am going to go home and melt some cheese in the microwave and add a splash of beer and give it to you with a spoon" He thought it looked like nacho dip and said he couldn't believe I was eating a whole bowl of cheese, lol.

If only he knew how good it was... and how often we are going to have to go back and get more!!!

Bring on the hormones!

I was laying on the couch in my pj's watching Smallville last night and feeling utterly miserable with a terrible migraine, acid reflux and being upset over an argument with my mom earlier that day. All the sudden my dog jumps up on the couch and starts to climb all over me thinking he is going to crawl up and snuggle next to my chest. He stomped right on my poor un-bra'ed booby!

It hust SO bad it brought tears to my eyes, and as DH starts asking me if I am okay I literally started sobbing uncontrollably. Poor DH, he thinks that my nipple got like, ripped off and that I am seriously hurt.

Meanwhile, I start laughing because even tho it hurt, it didn't hurt bad enough for that kind of reaction, and things just all the sudden got to me.

So here I am holding my booby, laughing and crying, and trying to breathe and compose myself, saying "I just had a bad day! I don't know why I am crying!" as DH is just staring at me dumbfounded.

I can only imagine what that scene looked like! Jeesh!

Vent: Mothers can be so difficult!

Okay so I am extremely annoyed right now. I have talked to my mother 2x this week and both times, I felt like I had smoke coming out of my ears and fire out of my mouth by the time I got of the phone!

I get so irritated sometimes. I have a MIL that is overly enthusiastic, gets giddy and squealy over nothing and bawls at the drop of a hat, and then I have my own mom who usually reacts to things pretty much matter-of-factly.

Well, I talked to her today tuesday (she called to make sure it was still oky by me for her to tell G'ma the news) and I wanted to share the good news about my NT scan results. Well, here is how the conversation went down:

Me: So, I got the results of the NT scan back

Her: What's that?

Me: Well, the ultrasound I had last week was part of the 1st tri screening, I also had blood drawn–

Her (interrupting): well now they've got your DNA!

Me: What? I doubt it, they didn't even get a vial of blood, just put drops of it on paper and mailed it off.

Her: Well, you obviously aren't up on your biology lessons.

Me: Whatever, I don't care. If "they" wanted my dna, they would get it someway anyway!

Her: I figured you'd do that anyway, I thought you would want to be checked for Down Syndrome. I wasn't going to ask. I don't know, maybe you would want to terminate the pregnancy.

Me (by this point I wanted to hang up on her and wasn't at all happy to share what I thought was good and exciting news): At anyrate the results were good.

Her: Oh, well thats good. I have a call on another line. Better take that. Love you, Bye.

And then she called me today - at my desk at work in the middle of the afternoon. Mind you I work in a cubicle and everyone around me (who do not know I am pregnant) can hear me.

Her: I just wanted to know if you gave your MIL the same restrictions you gave me.

Me: What do you mean?

Her: Did you tell her that she had to tell everyone she shared the news with not to post it on Facebook?

Me: Well, if I had told her she could share the news at all, and if anyone she knew was on Facebook, then yes, I would tell her the same thing!

Her:, Oh, well, I told your G'ma today and she says nobody is on there and she's not doing that. I told her, yes everybody is on it, but she doesn't get it.

Me: Everybody is not on it, but there are a handful of relatives, and that is not how I want the news to spread! We have close friends on there we haven't been able to see in person to tell yet!

Her: Well, I just think its ridiculous that I have to qualify your pregnancy with that.
(Does that even make sense???)

Me: Mom, I am at work, this is neither the time nor the place. I will call you when I get off.

Her: If you want too. I just wanted to know if MIL had the same set of rules you gave me...

Permission to scream now? I don't understand why sharing happy news always has to be so damn difficult with her! And I am so glad G'ma is happy for us too. Gawd!

NT Scan results :)

I just got a phone call from the genetic counselor we met with last week. She was super nice and I am glad we got the chance to work with her. I will take all the positive experience I can get with this pregnancy!

Anyways, the results were great! Less than 1 in 10,000 for Down Syndrome, Trisomy 13 & Trisomy 18.

The average chances for my age range are 1:960 for DS and 1:1,763 for Tri13 or Tri18, so that means that the risk of baby being born with one of those defects is considerably below average based on ultrasound results and my bloodwork.

Yay! I didn't really do the screening for the intended purposes. I really just wanted the chance for another insurance covered u/s. But since I have a 12 year old brother with DS and Autism, it still has been a concern.

I am very happy to have this reassurance!

2nd Trimester today!

Yay! I am so excited, I made it through the first trimester! Not only that, but I made it through without any puking, spotting scares, or major emotional breakdowns! I am counting my blessings that everything is going great. Thanks to everyone who has kept me and baby in your thoughts and prayers!

What a little wiggle worm!

Dh and I went down to the U of M for 1st trimester screening today. I am so glad we decided to go ahead and do this screening. It was such an amazing experience to see out little one in there. The 8 week 5 day u/s just looked like a little blob, but now it really looks like a baby.

And it MOVES!

OMG, Baby was SOOOO cute! In there wiggling around and doing flips, kicking and waving those tiny arms around. I have quite the little wiggle worm in there! The u/s tech could not get baby in the right spot to get the measurements she needed because the little one kept dancing around :) We got some cute pics too, here is the best one:


It looks like baby is sucking that tiny little thumb, doesn't it?

Anyways, we don't get the final results of the screening for another week or so, but according to the u/s tech the ultrasound results were better than average and the doctor said everything looks great!

Baby was measuring 1 day ahead of schedule at 12 weeks 6 days, and had a healthy heartbeat of 148 beats per minute.

I thin we are really starting to believe that this is actually going to happen. We have a real live baby growing away in there that we get to meet this spring!

I found the heartbeat with my doppler!!!

Yay! I am so excited! There was absolutely no mistaking that fast little beat for my own :)

But now I am positive that all I was finding before was my own heartbeat.

I can't wait til dh comes home tomorrow so I can have him listen too!