The year long hiatus

I'm back!

This is the reason why I stopped writing:

A good enough (or at least large enough) reason, you will agree. 

Obviously, growing a human is a lot of work, and it also turns your brain into the consistency of pudding. So, pregnant and working, while pudding-brained, rendered me pretty useless. Thus the long absence.
Another unfortunate consequence of pregnancy, as most people know, is the funky appetite (or lack thereof). Cooking is not something you feel like at all, since the smell and consistency of otherwise delicious ingredients makes you gag. Along with many other things. You change your mind about 15 times before you end up having vegetable stock and unsalted matzo for dinner. Delicious, right? All in all, not an ideal scenario to be writing about food, eating and cooking, as I was barely doing any of it.

Fortunately, the "icks" and "yucks" don't last long and your appetite comes back with a vengeance. And then you give in to the wonders of all bad foods, because you're going to grow a baby and gain all that weight anyway, right? As an example, the three food groups of my second trimester were: french toast, french fries and strawberries.

Well, at least for a little while that was the case. And then they go and tell me I have gestational diabetes (insert loud gasp!)

What does that mean? It means that: (1) Pregnancy hormones prevent your body from making and use all the insulin it needs for pregnancy, thus (2) your body stops being able to handle glucose, and this leads to (3) hyperglycemia, or high sugar in your blood, which is not great for you or the baby. What does that really mean? A hard core low carb diet to control blood sugar levels...

NOOOOOOO!!! Pregnant and no french toast, baguette or garlicky cheese bread, fries, muffins, cake, candy, absurd amounts of chocolate??? You got it. I had to count carbs and test my sugar at every meal. It was either that or insulin injections. And all this after the freaking Atkins fad finally went away and there is no more low carb crap available anywhere!! Absolute torture.

At least bacon has no carbs...

Anyway, no carbs, a few months and some hours of labor later, we had her:

So small (well, not so much anymore) but so much work! And little time for anything else besides cooing, playing, cleaning diapers (oh my, not something I had done much of in  the past) and trying to convince her that sleeping is good, and mama would love some too, thanks. By now the bags under my eyes have reached biblical proportions.

Needless to say I've been eating carbs like mad since she was born. I just had another glucose test to see if the diabetes went away. I have yet to hear the results, so please pray to any and all gods you may believe in, or if no gods, do a sugar dance so that the test comes back normal and I can go back to living a carbohappy lifestyle.

"Stolen sugar is the sweetest." Indian Proverb

Laister arte!