DuoLingo Streak: 8 Days
Sunday. Finally a day that I am not stuck on the phone all day. It has been a busy week. At this point we are in a little bit of a holding pattern with Arizona and we are not sure what the plan is moving forward. Hoping to hear something soon, but don’t want to push things too much either as we know that some decision makers are out of the country for a few weeks and are difficult to get to coordinate with during that time.
I did a bit of relaxing today. And Dominica and I hung out a bit, mostly watching Cheers which is our current sitcom watching choice. I know most of the episodes, but have never watched the show from end to end and it is definitely far better done in this way. I understand so much more of what is going on now.
This afternoon we finally made the decision that Dominica was using some of her savings to buy herself a couch. Lacking a place to sit in the house has been just awful and we are so happy with the one chair that we got from IKEA recently and we had told the kids that we would go get a couch as soon as I got a job and I sort of do at this point, so we figured that it was time to do it. Luciana had even come into my office today and told me that we had agreed to that when we bought the chair. From our last excusion, there was a low cost yellow love seat that the whole family had really liked that we felt would probably work perfectly for us in the master bedroom to replace the aweful old orange, broken Target futon that is in there now.
So we went to IKEA and I had read that the food there is so cheap that they actually lose money on every order. So we investigated and decided to eat there before doing our shopping. We had not done lunch yet, so this worked out perfectly. Liesl got the kid’s pasta and loved it. Luciana went for the salmon fillet dinner and really liked it; she got it without the sauce. I got the salmon too, it was really good. Dominica got the veggie balls in curry sauce, which she liked but realized too late that the sauce would bother her stomach so she could not eat much of it. Overall, dinner was cheap and delicious. A good find, we will do this again.
We did not have a lot of time as IKEA closes early on Sunday. We found out couch and did a small extra bit of shopping. The girls love running around trying out chairs and couches and beds and exploring the little sample apartments that are set up in the store.
We stayed as long as we could, which was not long, but promised the girls that we would return sometime soon to do more shopping.
We checked out and I brought the minivan up to load in the furniture and we discovered that we could not fit the couch into the minivan with the girls in it! Oops. So we had to call an Uber to take Dominica and the girls back to the house and I drove back with just the couch.
So our evening was spent assembling the couch, which was mostly Dominica, while I got some work done. The girls thought that playing with all of the cardboard that had come with it was lots of fun. They made themselves coffins and pretended to be vampires, and boats and pretended to explore rivers. They are so silly.
Once we had the couch assembled, Luciana asked that we watch Pirates of the Caribbean which Liesl sort of remembered having seen and Luciana could not remember (and maybe had never seen at all.) It was on Netflix and we had mentioned recently that we should watch it, hence why Luciana brought it up.
So we did the first, real, family movie night on the new couch and our first family viewing of Pirates of the Caribbean which both girls really enjoyed. And I doubt that either Dominica nor I have seen it in a really long time ourselves. It was a fun evening.
After the movie, I put the girls to bed and read their next book in the Magic Treehouse series. We started the fourth book tonight and totally by coincidence it was Pirates Past Noon.
Not only was this book about pirates, but right away in the story, the characters find and read a book actually called Pirates of the Caribbean! Both girls were like “WHAT!” Talk about coincidence. This was a bit crazy. So it turned into a very caribbean and pirates themed night for this family.
We read five chapters, getting us halfway through the book, and called it a night.