March came in like a lion, but not with weather. Baby #3 has taken  Doehill Homeschool by storm.

However, nobody feels the storm but me. Morning sickness is like never-ending flu. I've always wanted to lose weight quickly, but this isn't what I had in mind.  FIfteen pounds in three and a half weeks---my pal kasey calls it  "The Miracle Pregnancy Diet".  I have a feeling that when my friends are swapping pregnancy horror stories, my name will crop up with this line, "She dropped two sizes with morning sickness!" 

Get this, my husband wants to take a short cruise for a nice vacation this year. Well, paint me green and call me sour apple, but the line from Shakespeare, "I would fain die a dry death," runs a steady rhythm through my brain.

With continued bouts of sickness and dropping weight, friends have come to the rescue with remedies that helped them. Sucking sour lemons, eating bananas, eating crackers in bed before getting up in the morning, chewing peppermints or Altoids mints, drinking Sprite [ick--I'm so over that!], and other helpful tips have all proved useless. Hopefully, the pickiness about what is coming into my body doesn't indicate baby # 3's temperment, or I'm in BIG trouble.

Everyone has been so kind to NOT talk about food or disgusting things in front of me [except son #1--who is mirthfully enjoying mom's discomfort way too much], but I've even had to miss church. It got to the point where I couldn't just take my pack of crackers and go sit in the outer room of the ladies restroom anymore.  At least the pastor hasn't preached out of certain nauseating passages from Ezekiel, but we did have communion last night at church.  I almost didn't participate--the unleavened bread wasn't a problem, but the juice nearly done me in. I didn't color eggs with the kids this year, a first around here. I just couldn't handle the smell of  boiled eggs and vinegar dye.

However, for some reason, I have the strongest urge to bake cakes. Weird isn't it? Can't stand drinking milk,  butter on toast, or eggs in any way, but I've been busy baking cakes lately. So far I've come up with four new recipes, some I've made multiple times in the last three weeks. They are Lemon cake with Orange Creamsicle Glaze,  Strawberry Pound Cake with a preserve topping [baked in--it goes to the bottom, which inverted looks fabulous], Orange Pound Cake with Orange Creamsicle glaze, and my favorite, White Chocolate Coconut Cake. 

For  a woman who can't eat, I've sure been making sure everyone else does. For the first time--and as a Tennessee native, I'm ashamed to admit it--I've finally gotten my pinto beans to taste right. Our church ladies served for a family who'd had a death this past week, and I took them. Hubby said, "Well, I hope you can do that again. Those smelled pretty good and I didn't get any. " So there's pintos and fresh cornbread waiting on him tonight.  What with the cruise idea and wanting some beans comment, I hope I'm not making him sound selfish. He just wants to pamper me with a nice a vacation and he also knows that fastest way to make me smile is get jealous of my cooking.  Oh, how I love that man!

So, I've not abandoned blogging totally, I've just not been able to sit down and give it the time needed.  Besure to check the sidebar link about the up coming Voice of the Martyrs meeting at our church--IT'S ON MONDAY APRIL 7 AT 7 PM!!!!! BE THERE--YOU'LL NOT REGRET IT!

Time to go--hopefully it won't be so long between my visits to my own blog.