Second Trimester

Well it is official I have entered the second trimester of my pregnancy. It still boggles my mind that I have made it this far and this a learning as I go as well. The mood swings are random at best. I can be happy and fine one minute and angry the next or upset. I feel bad for my husband who gets to the see the brunt of the rapid changes. He is very sweet through the whole thing specially when I have been very sick and very tired. The tiredness still is hanging on pretty hard but it seems like the morning sickness is starting to go away finally. I know I have been told I would just  have to accept that I have morning sickness but in my opinion I don’t need to accept it at all.  I know I wasn’t worst case at all since it was just dry heaving but still its very hard on the body either way.

So last night I didn’t take my morning sickness pills I normally take at night to help through the next day. Before anybody says anything about self medicating I did ask my pharmacist yesterday if I could start going off them. And thus far in the day I feel good I don’t feel the need to run to the bathroom and potentially pull a muscle dry heaving. Which I am happy about it for sure, but know its my nose I smell so many things know. My husband joked that I became a hound dog since I can smell when bananas are ripe and what not. I find it can be nice having a super nose right know but other times its not so much fun at all. For example we went shopping the other day and I smelled something that made me feel super sick right away. Of course my husband cant smell what I smelled.

I am waiting for a boost of energy I keep hearing about in the second trimester which I hope hits soon. I don’t like feeling so tired even though I slept through the whole night and still need to sleep half the day as well. Know that I am on the mend maybe yoga is the way to go to help with the tiredness. One of my best friends keeps saying exercise helps and I know she is probably right after all. But I was so worried of getting sick while working out I waited until know to make sure I know I’m not going to get sick all over my mate.  The thought of it happening has made me laugh even though I know it seems very strange to laugh about.

I hope all of you expecting mamas have a good pregnancy.

Fried Cabbage

I make this as often as I can specially with purple cabbage. I have told people i love fried cabbage and they look at me confused. Probably thinking i actually put the cabbage in the fryer.

I explain i fry it in a frying pan with butter. I grew up eating this stuff as long as i can remember. I always got excited when my mom made this dish. She always used green cabbage and added some seasoning sometimes.

Once i moved out and made this dish myself. I used purple cabbage so then i can the white part turn purple and that’s how you know its done. I have been experimenting with seasoning. I have used just himalayan pink sea salt (which is good) but lately its been cajun seasoning with a dash of garlic salt. Very yummy!

You pair this dish with almost any meat or fish dish. And the best part is its super easy to make and then serve in maybe 15 minutes.

Happy eating.

Baby blanket for my cousin

I made this baby blanket for my cousin using Caron Cakes Blueberry Cheesecake and Faire Cake. 3 balls of each went into this blanket . I used a 5mm hook from knitpicks. My added up time was 54 hrs but it was probably more since i did not record a lot of it. I enjoy working with Caron Cake yarn since it is soft on your hands.