Urgh

I know that I've been a terrible blogger lately (among other things) so here's a quick update on the last week. Let's see... I'll start with last Tuesday when Allie and I went to the Botannical Gardens with Aunt Re for the first time. I forgot the camera, so unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the blooming irises or roses. I guess that's an excuse to go back! It's actually pretty affordable, too. Only $4 per ticket, but I've batted around the idea of getting a membership for $65. It includes two adult admissions per visit, so it would pay for itself in 9 visits. We'll see... Afterwards, we did a little shopping and ended up in Brentwood. Since we were right there, I decided to pop into my old place of employment, Archetypes. I hadn't been to their new location and was quite surprised to see the owner working! At first he didn't recognize me after 4 years, but after jogging his memory a bit, we chatted for a few minutes. It was a little awkward, but I guess that was to be expected. I had a lot of good times while working there with Sarah, but that was a lifetime ago!

I have to say I honestly cannot remember what we did on Wednesday, but on Thursday Matt had the day off so we finished the veggie garden. We bought seedlings at the Sappington Farmer's Market and were able to pick up a larger variety of plants than last year. If everything turns out, we'll have two varieties of tomatoes, red and green bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, yellow and zucchini squash, bush beans, and cantelope (I think our lettuce is already scorched from the heat).

Then on Friday, my mom came over and we took Allison to our favorite Greek restaurant for lunch. Afterwards, she came back to the house and we played with the baby and discussed plans for my cousin's baby shower in a couple weeks. I'm very excited to have my family over to see our home (many for the first time) and also for everyone to meet Allison! I have ambitious ideas of projects I want to complete before then, but am having a very difficult time getting motivated. So if anyone wants to get together and go fabric shopping or have a sewing play date, I'm all for it!!

Saturday we had plans to go to the Greek festival in Des Peres with Anne Marie, Morgan, and Julie, but it turned into a not so good day. I've been having more and more problems with the Crohn's lately and Saturday I had to make the difficult decision to give up breastfeeding and switch to stronger meds. I know that I'm no good to her sick, but it was still really hard to finally throw in the towel. I know that I did the best I could and the breast milk she received for the first 9 weeks was certainly beneficial even if it did come in the form of a bottle. So, I've been weaning my pumping for the last few days and my milk seems to be stopping pretty quickly. (Granted my production wasn't great to start with...) But I do have to say that I'm much more content feeding her without the stress of trying to get her to latch or the constant thought of needing to pump again.

This blog turned into a longer entry than I anticipated, so I'll end with Memorial Day! Lynn and Mike had invited a few people over for a BBQ, so Allison and I headed over to see everyone while Matt was still at work. He did join us after he got off and we ended up staying til 10pm! I was exhausted by the long day, (I had attempted to go the Gypsy Caravan that morning but cancelled due to the rain and ended up damaging two tires on my way home... whoops.) but was very excited to see everyone. Alright, I'm stopping now.