Good-bye 1st Trimester...Hello Maternity Pants!

I have felt an immediate difference upon entering the second trimester.  It has been over two weeks since I have been sick, just a little nausea every now and then.  I also do not have to eat every hour like I was before.  When I first found out I was pregnant I went right to eating super healthy foods and taking great care of myself, and then the morning/all day/night sickness started.  Now I will say that compared to some people who throw up all day every day, i don't have much room to talk.  I will say that it was a little bit more than I thought it would be though.  My thoughts were more like I would wake up in the mornings, throw up and then be normal the rest of the day.  This was not the case, so I went into survival mode.  I mainly ate carbs!  All I wanted was toast, crackers and potatoes!  I did my best to add some fruits veggies and proteins when I could, but I ate a lot of crackers.  

Now that I am feeling better I am trying to eat healthier.  I haven't had any weird cravings which I'm kind of sad about because EVERYONE asks about the cravings and I really want to have something cool to say.  I also have found my version of ice cream.  What I mean is I hear a lot of people say they ate a lot of ice cream when they were pregnant, and while I don't mind eating ice cream, I would much rather have something else...cereal!   Now I have ALWAYS been a big cereal girl, you will typically find about half a dozen boxes in my cabinet, but it's typically stuff like: go lean crunch, autumn wheat, homemade granola, cheerios, grape nuts, etc.  What I am wanting right now is the cereal I was typically only allowed to have twice a year, on my birthday and when we stayed at the cabin at Thanksgiving.  Last week I quickly took out a box of cinnamon toast crunch and this week I am working my way through captain crunch, both the one with crunch berries and the peanut butter kind.  I am trying to limit myself to one box of the sugary stuff a week, because other wise I think I would eat one a day! 

So, thanks to the baby I am currently sharing my belly with, and all those carbs and cereal, I have made my way into maternity pants.  And I must say, they are wonderful!  I'm thinking about wearing them forever, who needs zippers and buttons when you can just have pants that fit nice and comfy and just pull on!  I promise to put pictures up here soon so you can see my expanding belly, but I am not on my computer with the pictures.