Must you always feed...

I've noticed I go through these spurts in the pregnancy where hunger pretty much consumes me. Yeah, being pregnant you're usually a little more hungry. But it seems like every few weeks, I'll go through these phases where no matter what I eat I become starving again ten minutes later. Even if I eat a well balanced dinner of meat, a potato or pasta and a vegetable. Doesn't matter, still hungry minutes later. It's really frustrating because half the time I do not want to eat anything more or go searching the kitchen for something to hold over my hunger for another ten minutes. Maybe the baby is having a growth spurt? Maybe that's when I get extra hungry like this? Which, I will do anything for my baby, so if she's hungry I will eat for her. But sometimes I literally just want to cry because I'll have just eaten a well balanced dinner and then minutes later it's like I haven't eaten in days. I mean, last night I had to make scrambled eggs at midnight. I do try to eat a piece of fruit or peanut butter toast or a few pretzels when this crazy hunger strikes. But it doesn't help any! I feel like I'm constantly "feeding!" Which reminds me of a funny line from the movie Juno where her friend said to her something like "God! Must you always feed??!!"

I had my ear appointment with my primary doctor today, which was pretty much a waste of $30.00. I have issues with visiting doctors offices and not getting any "real" information. I know, it was good to just get my ear checked out in case I had like a nest of bugs growing in there or something. But as strange as it may sound I kind of wish he looked in there and found something wrong just so it could be fixed! He did find some scar tissue (which he said could have been from my childhood ear infections and tubes I had put in)  but overall he said my ears looked great. No wax problems. No infection. He said I could have had an infection last week when I had the severe pain but obviously it had healed. But my question to him was "Well why can I barely hear then?" To which he replied there could be some fluid hiding out but that if my hearing doesn't get better in a week to go see an ENT doctor. Great, another $30.00. I know I should be grateful to even have health insurance, but the $30 still hurts. So I guess I'm just going to have to wait it out a few days and see what happens. I might just go ahead and make the appointment because, why wait really? If I can't hear well, there must be something going on...

I'm having issues parting with our Christmas tree. I put away all the other decorations, but I sort of wish I could leave the tree up until all the needles falls off. It's just so pretty. I always get a little depressed once Christmas is over. I think Christmas should be like a week long holiday. We'll probably take it down this weekend. I want my husband to take a belly pic of me in front of it. And maybe...just maybe...I'll post it on here. No promises though...

Not that it's anyones goal in life on here to see one of my belly pics :)