It was a big day today! A milestone, if you will.
On the first day of my second trimester, I came home starving. It was cold outside today, one of the few days it's really been getting cold, and I suggested we have potato bacon soup (one of the best cold day dinners out there!). I think Tristan was caught off guard by me actually suggesting something for dinner, since I usually have no appetite at all and basically just nibble at whatever he's hungry for and feels like making, because he actually made no counter offers or suggestions but got right up and started making it.
It smelled sooooo good while it was cooking, too, because he fries the bacon and drains it while the potatoes boil, and maybe he does something to the chopped onions, and then there's all the creamy soupy goodness that surrounds all these wonderful things...oh, the smell was heaven!
But I've been burned before. Potato Bacon Soup is one of my favorite dinners (incredibly deserving of its all caps status), and I haven't had it since we got pregnant. Many of my other favorite dinners have been made on nights I felt hungry: meatloaf, pork tenderloin, barbecue bacon chicken, and others. All have been nibbled and discarded, left to linger in tupperware until my lack of appetite finally gets them eaten by Tristan or tossed. So I was understandably cautious about the Potato Bacon Soup.
I served dinner, which is my usual task (Tristan cooks, I serve, he washes, I dry—the system works for us—but since I've been so nauseated that just being in the kitchen can set me off, I've been slacking on my share of the chores), and gave Tristan a normal sized bowl while I gave myself a much smaller bowl, and we sat down to eat.
Potato Bacon Soup was amazing! Delicious ambrosia! and as soon as I finished my bowl, not even five minutes into the show we were watching, I was up and getting seconds. I ate all of the soup that was left, and since Tristan made approximately the same amount as he would have pre-Baby, I ate a "normal" portion of food!
I think this morning sickness thing might finally be over!!
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