2/14/11 – Happy Valentine’s Day!

Oh, the day o’ love is upon us. Christian and I have never been big into celebrating Valentine’s Day. The first couple of years we were together we did the dinner and gift stuff, but that quickly faded away and we turned into those “Valentine’s Day is just a Hallmark Holiday…you don’t need a HOLIDAY to show someone you love them” kind of people. Really, we just don’t have the money to celebrate…and if we did, we probably would. I did give each of the girls a little gift bag, and Olivia just loved her presents. We usually get each other a card…Christian apparently decided not to do that this year. So, it was an even more lame Valentine’s Day than usual. He did say he looked at the flower delivery places, and “dang, they are expensive”…so, kudos for looking I guess. Secretly, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it if he would surprise me by sending flowers to my work or something. I would die, and everybody would be jealous, so maybe one day!

Overall, today was just a pretty normal day. Amelia, again, did not sleep a wink last night. I ended up being late to work…my alarm clock was going off for an HOUR before I finally heard it. Oops. So, Christian (who starts work later than I do) brought the girls to his mom’s for me so that I wouldn’t be even more late. Work was good…but for the first time in 4+ months I was not able to pump enough for Amelia’s 3 bottles for tomorrow. This has never happened, and I’m devastated. I will be able to use some of tomorrow morning’s milk to fill the bottle, but that just means I’m going to be off all week. I don’t know what could have happened…Amelia has been eating like a cow all weekend, so I thought that would help my supply if anything. Christian thinks maybe she’s going through her 6 month growth spurt (a little late), and that could be. I just hope I’m able to make up for this little drop over the week. My biggest fear is losing my supply…I want to make it the full year so badly.

After work we all just met up at home and hung out. The girls opened their gifts, we ate some random leftovers in the fridge and just took it easy. Praying for sleep tonight…that’s all I know!

Here are some pics of my favorite Valentine’s!