Things you take for granted when you are not pregnant:

1. Brushing your teeth, and even your tongue, without heaving. Let's hope you didn't eat in the too-recent past! I have completely given up on brushing my tongue for now, it is hard enough to brush my back teeth, and if Josh leaves one more glob of toothpaste in the sink, I am probably going to vomit just thinking about it. Not sure why that's so nauseating, but it is. To me.

2. Sleeping through an entire night without a pee break. I gave that one up within about 5 minutes of finding out I was pregnant. They say this improves in the second trimester when the uterus rises above the level of the bladder, and then you start waking up to pee again in the third trimester when there just isn't room for anything anymore, ha. I think that was true with Ben, let's hope it's true again. It's cold in the middle of the night!

3. Zipping and buttoning your pants. All of them, every pair. They all used to fit, I swear they did. Once.

4. Showering without having to rest afterward from the exertion. Sounds pretty dumb, I'm certainly not huge enough yet to complain of fatigue, but man. Showering wears me out.

5. Deciding what you want to eat within a reasonable amount of time, and sticking to that decision even if your food takes more than 37 seconds to prepare. I always want to tell the waiter/waitress at a restaurant, "Bring it really fast or I'll want something different!" but of course that sounds waaaaay too high-maintenance to be ME, so I just keep my mouth shut and ask God to make my stomach want to eat whatever it is I've already ordered. Ha.