Of Cravings and Bad Smells

I'm now 10 weeks along and the little parasite is now supposed to be about the size of a walnut (according to some baby website I belong to). And I have alas made the foray into the realm of "oh shit... my favorite things don't smell so good any more" and "i want that NOW" cravings. I kept being warned that my favorite things wouldn't smell good to me anymore, but thus far it had been items that I could care less about... a strange cheese in the store or someone's lunch at work that doesn't even look tempting on a good day. But this weekend... it was coffee.

Ahhh coffee... my one time friend and morning salvation. No longer. My mother-in-law was innocently making coffee this weekend, unworried because I had (as yet) had no problems with coffee. I suddenly became convinced that someone had swapped coffee grounds for dead rodent and my poor mother-in-law was brewing some sludge made of its ashes. Ugh. I can't think of anything in recent memory that smelled worse. Then to top it off, my father-in-law set about making my FAVORITE potatoes. He makes these fabulous potatoes for me every year... potato and onion fried up in a bit of bacon fat. Let me tell you... they are usually heaven. Unfortunately this year they were vying with the dead-rodent-coffee for worst smell of the year. Sigh.

As the title of my post would suggest, I'm also getting my first cravings. Chocolate shakes. When nothing else in the world smells or tastes good and I'm convinced that my little walnut is starving... chocolate shakes are the only thing in the world that sound good - or strawberry shakes. Well, okay... any shake really. Ice cream basically. Or some form of chocolate dairy (like the 3 glasses of Chocolate Carnation Instant Breakfast I had this morning). Hey, at least the kid is getting calcium, right? (this is how I'm justifying my mad ice cream need).

Speaking of cravings, my in-laws got me a funny joke gift of "craving foods." It was full of these horrible things like Spam, canned corned beef, canned Vienna Sausages and Pork Rinds. Want to hear what pregnancy does? The freakin' PORK RINDS sounded good. They're nacho cheese flavor and I broke right into those puppies. Not bad I tell ya, not bad.

Jesus... what will I be eating next....