As I sit here at work on this rainy morning, drinking my cup of milk with my chocolate sprinkle donut- no judging I'm pregnant (using that excuse for all it's worth) and the little guy likes 'em- that is really what I want to know. How many of you put ice in your milk?
I'm not a huge milk drinker, never have been and probably never will be. I prefer skim milk because it mostly tastes like water but oh about 2 years and 5 months ago I started buying 1%. I figured for as much as I drink it, it didn't really matter. Cap'n Crunch actually absorbs 1% milk quite nicely. Anyway, the thought of putting ice in my milk has never crossed my mind until recently. I like my drinks really cold. Always order extra ice and I always put ice in my water, juice, and now my milk. Is that weird?
Ice in my milk is not the only thing on my mind this morning. I've also been worried the last few days that I'm not excited enough for this baby to come. I mean I'm super happy and pretty excited but it's not how I imagined it would be. But what ever is, right?
I think the fact that everyone who finds out we're expecting asks me if I'm excited, makes me judge my excitement a little too much. Well yeah I'm excited (what kind of question is that and who would answer truthfully if they weren't)? And it seems like a one word answer to that question is never good enough. I answer with "Yeah, I'm excited," and they sit there, waiting for an explanation as to why or how much. As if to test my level of excitement and use that to distinguish how good of a mom I'm going to be?
The best was when after my excitement level was determined, a lady asked if my husband was excited. Well of course he is. I didn't trick him into making a baby with me. It was pretty much a mutual decision and we pretty much have the same level of excitement going on.
I mean I have a lot of additional emotions running through my body right now, but excitement is definitely one of them. I'm not the kind of person who expresses my emotions how most people would like me to. My mom used to get all kinds of mad at me when I wouldn't act "excited" as I opened birthday or Christmas gifts. I was excited... I'm just not a good actor or liar for that matter.
I find myself worrying a lot more and being excited a lot less. I get quiet reminders when I'm in the right place at the right time of how blessed and grateful I am to just have this little person growing inside of me and that everything will be okay if I have faith. I just need about 23 of those reminders every day.
I thought that buying an outfit or two for the baby might help me get more excited but then I realized I am going to have to buy clothes for this guy for the next 20 years and it sort of freaked me out a little.
I told Jason all of this and he just kind of laughs at me because apparently he has thought about all of this already and I... didn't. He has more faith than I do. He knows that right now is the right time and so everything will turn out okay. I, on the other hand, have wanted/felt good about having a baby since right after we got married so now it's no different except that it's a reality.
I had a dream last night about making a little boy laugh his head off. You know, the cute kind of baby laugh that is contagious. Speaking of dreams, wow have I had some doozies. Last Saturday I woke Jason up by hitting him because of something he did in my dreams. Poor guy, didn't even know it was coming! Blamed it on the pregnancy. Hey, I only have like 5 more months that I can do that. So I think I will be making donut & ice milk Friday a staple for the next 5 months.
And yes, I know I need extra calcium while I'm pregnant so that's obviously why I'm drinking milk even if I have to add ice. What is it with older people (that I work with) that makes them think they can ask me about my diet just because I'm pregnant. Yes, I know I need to get lots of calcium, protein, and all the other stuff your supposed to eat even when your not pregnant. I pretty much smothered my donut into work in my purse as to avoid any disapproving looks or comments about my fiber intake. Maybe I'm being a little bit over defensive on the subject... we'll blame that on the pregnancy too.
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5 comments:
My grandmother always asks if I'm eating enough fruits and veggies- apparently I should have them coming out of my ears :) I love ice!! but I've actually never thought of putting it in my milk... not sure about that one yet. I use milk as my excuse to eat more cookies, you have to have milk with cookies and I sometimes I can't get myself to drink milk without a cookie! Nate actually had to wake me up one night because I was yelling/crying from a dream... prego crazies! We need to get together soon and discuss this whole prego thing...and carve pumpkins, mystery dinner??
My family has always put ice in our milk and I love it. I am a huge milk fan. So I don't think you are wierd because if definately makes milk so much better!! You are so cute and I always love your posts.
Sorry friend, I'm anti-ice in the milk. However I have my own odd tendency. I absolutely will not drink milk unless it came straight out of the fridge. In other words, if I'm not the one who got it out, then I won't drink it. If i see it out on the counter (even if you told me it's only been out for a minute) I won't drink it. Why you ask? Because it has to be cold for me to drink it. If it is not cold, or if I think it won't be cold, I won't drink it. See how these ideas contradict one another? Ice would solve this problem, but I don't like that idea either-might get watery. Luckily for me, I rarely drink milk. I only eat it in cereal (and I'm not as picky about it in my cereal) and it MUST be 1%. All others are gross. Wow, I never realized how OCD I am about my milk....on another note. You and I are exactly the same. I'm not prego, but I totally get the excitement- non excitement concerns. I've decided I'm just always content/indifferent depending on how you want to look at it. It's not ever how I imagine, in the end it's always the same result. Contentment, I don't really express much more or less. It has it's advantages but it's definitely a disadvantage when I worry over how much I care....or don't. So I get ya! At least you have pregnancy as an excuse! Apparently I've just learned I'm OCD and crazy. This has been very therapeutic! :)
No to the ice, and no to milk EXCEPT for when I'm pregnant. I can't get enough red meat or milk when I'm on the nest. Now that I'm not: I don't like red meat and I don't drink milk. Weird. It was shocking how many gallons of milk we'd (I'd) go through in a week. And, how can you be out-of-your-mind excited for something that you can't even fathom?
I am an Ice in the milk lover! People (aka: my husband) thinks I'm crazy when I do it, but I love it as cold as it can get! One of the best times, was when our fridge went on the fritz and practically froze the milk. So I had milk slushy. It was the best! I love it when pregnant too - yay for calcium!
Our little one was a surprise so we went through a lot of emotions. I like how Kara put it. Having a baby puts your emotions through a roller coaster ride; so excited, scared, nervous, anxious, or even just neautral feelings are definitely to be expected. (I think the same thing happens when you have the kid too.)
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