Yes, it would be appropriate for me to break my long blogging fast with a WFMW.  It seems that it's all I get done these days, if I can get on to blog at all.

Anyway, I'm combining this with the announcement that there will be another Garden baby come sometime during May 2007.  We've broken with tradition here, so maybe it will even be a girl to completely smash the tradition.  Our other children's birth month/year are as follows:  1/01, 2/03, 3/05. 

Anyway, the morning sickness, er all-the-time sickness.  It's not so bad this time, but I have to really stay on top of things.  First of all, I am never hungry.  Seriously.  I have to eat, eat, eat, eat.  Secondly, I can't get too full or it makes it worse.  Then, I jump from miserably full to starving in a few seconds & don't allow time to prepare.  Thirdly, avocadoes; 'nuff said.  For some reason, avocadoes have helped me so much, especially on a big salad dressed with honey mustard dressing.  I've been having these nearly daily for about a week and I've had less issues with nausea than ever before.  I've also weaned the baby, um, toddler, which helps too, as I don't need quite as many calories now & don't have to quite as frequently.

When I'm not eating my salad, here's a short list of what has helped:

a splash of lemon juice in my water

nuts (kept the bathroom for those midnight munchies)

crackers with nut butter

goat cheese spread on crackers or veggies

hummus with whole wheat pitas

Altoids (ginger preferred, but peppermint also okay)

Pregnancy tea, lightly sweetened

These are working for me, and I'm immensely grateful!