Gilly had a rather difficult craving to satisfy the other day. She wanted vanilla soft serve (not ice cream, mind you, but soft serve) in a sugar cone. Well, as all of you soft serve aficionados out there know, soft serve is almost never served in a sugar cone. Most places serve it in those rather flavorless, yellow cones. So what is a dedicated husband supposed to do in this case? Improvise, of course. I went to Safeway and bought a box of sugar cones. Then I drove to McDonald’s, which was the closest place to our house that sells soft serve (couldn’t have it melt on the way home) and asked them to put the vanilla soft serve in one of the sugar cones. Voila!

It’s amazing the weird things you can ask for at restaurants when your wife is pregnant. Gilly’s latest favorite at Quizno’s is the veggie sandwich, add turkey. I definitely get puzzled looks when I ask them to put meat on what is supposed to be a vegetarian sandwich. But if I quickly shrug and say, “my wife’s pregnant,” I usually get a “say no more” type of response.