The Edge of Reason

With pregnancy has come some very peculiar changes... The newest, most recognizable one has to do with food. Pregnant women cannot be trusted to shop responsibly.

I used to love grocery shopping, I found it relaxing and fulfilling. Now I find it exhausting, frustrating, and useless. Why useless you ask? This mum-to-be is completely incompetent when it comes to sticking to a list, or buying anything that will be useful to my husband. My shopping cart ends up filled with random things that "look good" and very little that will constitute a full meal... It is the very physical representation of the insane stream of consciousness that goes through my being from moment to moment.

Additionally, my internal monitor of what is a "reasonable" price for things has gone completely haywire. If I see it and I want it, I buy it. Yesterday I wanted watermelon. In the past, I have been a bit of a watermelon snob. I don't like seedless (it does not taste watermelony enough) and I only buy in season; on sale; and only after thumping, stroking, and sniffing all of the competing melons. As it is nearly December, and watermelon season is FAR over in Missouri, it would not make sense that I would be shopping for watermelons. BUT- I had a craving, so while we were at the grocery store, I made a bee-line for the processed melons and found one that would suit my purpose. I came home with a 1/4 of a seedless, subpar watermelon that I paid $3.03 for. Of course, I have happily devored half of it already this morning- but it goes to show you what happens to my senses when I am pregnant. Normally, I would have turned my nose up at such a specimen for the price, the color, even the species of watermelon. But, I want what I want and no one can stop me!!!

This may explain my overspending at the grocery store... And perhaps explains why my husband has NO FOOD to eat- I am wreckless with a check card, a squeaky shopping cart, and a bebe in the belly.