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Zeke double checked his grocery list as he took another lap through the refrigerated section. Tina was 36 weeks pregnant with their first child and her cravings only seemed to get stronger the closer it came for to their little one's due date.
Zeke had asked Bob to check in on Tina today while he ran some errands, knowing that Bob would bring Tina her biggest craving of all: a burger from his restaurant with extra extra cheese. Plus it gave Zeke piece of mind knowing that someone was there to look after her while he was out, since she'd begun nesting recently and decided nothing in the nursery was in the right place anymore.
Zeke felt a bit guilty knowing that Bob would get roped into moving the furniture around but took comfort in knowing that Tina was at least staying off of her feet.
He had one more item to get and he'd be heading back home. He'd already gotten her jar of peanut butter and those small gherkin pickles that had been a constant craving throughout the pregnancy. He had just added a fresh watermelon to his cart as well, which had become the latest addition to her snacking list. Since he knew Bob had the burger covered, he only had one more thing to cross of his list: sugar cookies. But not just any cookies, the ready to bake cookies with the holiday themes from the refrigerated section.
Unfortunately for Zeke, this was always the hardest thing on Tina's list to find. Zeke had been to three different stores today in between his other errands of getting the tires on his truck rotated and making a deposit at the bank. He knew he couldn't go home without those damn cookies unless he wanted to see Tina sob because he didn't have them.
"Fuck what aisle would they even be in? Does the picture really matter or will they taste the same as anything else?" Zeke wondered aloud to himself.
At this point he knew better than to verbalize his questions to his wife. Last time he'd done such a thing she'd cried for 20 minutes as she frantically explained that yes, the cheese from the deli did in fact taste different when it came from the one on the other side of town thank you very much. That was the moment Zeke learned to just do whatever he could to keep her happy and satisfied, knowing that would be his key to surviving this pregnancy.
Just as he was about to give in and try for store number 4, he found them. The last box on the shelf!
Zeke quickly grabbed the cookies and sighed in relief. As he made his way to the checkout, he couldn't help but smile to himself at the thought of how overjoyed Tina would be when he got home.
When Zeke arrived back at their place, he found Tina with her feet up, eating one of Bob's burgers and laughing with Linda as the pair watched as Bob struggled to move the crib into just the right place.
Zeke felt his heart swell, loving the sight of his growing family surrounded by people who cared about them. As he unloaded the groceries, Tina smiled at him from across the table, winking like she'd caught on to his musings. Zeke kissed her forehead in passing, and made his way to help Bob, knowing the two were in for a long evening of rearranging the nursey. But he'd do it ten times over so long as it kept that smile on Tina's face.