Monday. It was a busy day even though there was not all that much going on around the house. We had a nice rain this morning, but not so much that we had to worry about the house flooding like it did last time. Just a nice rain that gets the ground wet. We had the windows open so it was a perfect morning for laying in bed for a while. Just how I like it. Probably sixty degrees out and a light rain, heavy enough that you can really hear it.
After we had been up for a bit, Dominica sent me out to get breakfast and coffee. We are completely out of coffee at the house, we suspect that Rachel and Anita were drinking it heavily last week while we were out of town, and needed some pretty badly. So I drove to Cafe Brazil on Josey and did a take out order of vegetarian migas for Dominica and me, and pancakes for the girls and got some coffee for us. While I waited there I worked on my DuoLingo. I’m on an eleven day streak at this point and trying hard to keep it up. I’m feeling very good about my Italian progression and I don’t want to lose the momentum. I’ve learned as much Italian in the last two weeks as I have ever learned of Spanish. So I’m pushing pretty hard.
I worked on writing and posting all day today. Dominica and the girls worked on school and when she could she watched some of the new Gilmore Girls mini series and looked for apartments and houses on Sicily.
Rachel, whose wallet has been missing for a week almost, had her grandmother find it in her driveway today. So she plans to go down to Corsicana with her mother tonight to get it. She rode into work with Melanie early this morning so will be home earlier than normal tonight.
Tonight’s big “news” was that Aunt Sharon was doing a bit of genealogy research and discovered that the shared ancestor that my uncle Leo and my mom have is none other than Joris de Rapelje, the famous teenager of whom I’m been telling stories about for many years who he and his wife were on the first boat (the Unity) to the New Netherlands colony in 1624 (four days after their wedding) and become the most influential (DNA wise, anyway) of the thirty founding families of the colony and subsequently New York in general. He’s a historic figure that I know well and was pretty amazed to have suddenly found, out of nowhere, that I am directly descended from. So this makes my attachment to the colony even stronger and takes me back to both of the first two boatloads of settlers.
Joris was also important because he is from Northern France but was run out by the Catholics there because he was a Cavinist and so fled to Holland with his wife from Paris (or bride to be as they did not get married until they were four days from getting on the boat to leave.)
It’s also a little interesting that Leo and I are tenth cousins (I think that I got the count correct) as we are the ones that line up generationally, rather than Leo and my mother. I’m the eleventh generation born in the New World from this line. So Liesl and Luciana are twelfth generation (and line up with my cousins on the other side, Sara and Jeremy.)
I was supposed to go out with Shawn to Quinlan’s tonight, but he fell asleep early as he has not been getting sleep recently due to his two broken ribs.
Tonight Dominica and I spent an hour or two playing Overcooked with the girls. We really enjoy playing the game together, but boy do we get frustrated as it is so intense and it is so hard to keep the girls focused.
Later on Luciana watched videos and Liesl played Ankh: Anniversary Edition on her own most of the remainder of the evening.
Rachel got home late, not long before midnight. But she has her wallet back.