All hail Caesar. . .almost

One of the stranger things to have happened to me in the last few weeks is my aversion to certain foods. . .particularly those foods which I used to enjoy eating. One such food is Caesar salad. I used to love it so much that I had a plan to taste the Caesar salad at every restaurant which served it in Los Angeles.

These days, any kind of salad, especially romaine lettuce coupled with any kind of creamy dressing completely grosses me out. I had to pause in the middle of this paragraph just thinking about how gross salad seems.

I wonder if salads will ever come back. Some of you may remember a time in my life when I didn't eat lettuce, I claimed I was allergic to the stuff. Maybe my recent interest in salads was just a passing phase and I'll never touch the stuff again.

And Becky makes four

I got the great news yesterday that my friend Becky, who I have known since we were freshmen (ahem, first-years in Barnard speak) in college, is also pregnant. She is due in June. Becky brings the total of friends I have who are currently pregnant to four. It's really hard not to be able to talk to them right now.

Would you like fries with that?

I don't know too much about pregnancy yet but I believe it's universally known that women have cravings, sometimes odd ones.

I'm not ready for pickles and ice cream yet but I am feeling a strong pull towards almost every fast food establishment I come across. Why does my future child insist on being fed such trash? I can't remember the last time I considered eating in McDonald's but I have downed 3 happy meals and a Carl's Junior chicken sandwich in the last two weeks and haven't looked back. I've also found satisfaction in the burger special at the Village coffee shop down the street from my house. Mmm, I am getting hungry just writing this.

Since my belly has not yet grown and I haven't vomited yet, this is the first noticeable disruption to my life as normal: Jamie the foodie is now Jamie the fast foodie. Fittingly, Jonathan has decided to call the child "the McNugget" for now. Here's hoping the future babe refines its palate as I refine my wardrobe in the coming months.

And the top ten reasons to be pregnant are. . .

Jonathan was just as surprised as I was with the news but was quick to offer lots of support and point out the positives ahead of us.

He will start blogging soon but for now, here is his "top ten exciting things about being pregnant."

He came up with this list the day after we discovered our news:

10. New cute clothes for YOU
9. Lots of attention showered upon you
8. Ability to cut in line at airports under certain circumstances
7. Food, glorious food
6. Cravings, and a willing husband to satisfy them for you
5. Redecorating "Rachel Bloom's room"
4. Cute clothes for a baby
3. MONTHS off from work MONTHS off from work MONTHS off form work
2. Admiration from those around you
Did I mention cute clothes?
and the number one reason:

1. An amazing bundle of joy to nurture and raise in our image

Trust, but verify

As I mentioned earlier, this news was quite shocking. So shocking, that I took four pregnancy tests to convince myself this was really happening.

A blood test result a few days later confirmed it.

Surprise, I'm pregnant!

No one is more surprised than I am that I am pregnant. Even as I write these words I am still in shock. I have known for about a week and a half and it still hasn't sunk in. I knew that I would want kids one day but I didn't think that day was going to be any time soon. To be perfectly honest, my life is pretty good right now and I wasn't planning to disrupt it. But of course things rarely go as we expect them to and I now find myself embracing this surprising little turn of events. It turns out, there are a lot of positives to being pregnant and expecting a child. OH MY GOD, I am expecting a child. I can't believe it.

We are not planning to tell anyone this news for a few more weeks so I'm happy to have this space to store all of the thoughts I want to be sharing with my nearest and dearest now.