February 22, 2009: The Lagunas Come to Visit

The Miller family slept in a bit this morning.  We were quite tired after last night. We got up this morning and set about cleaning the house.  The floors are good and the furniture is all in place but there is plenty left to do, mostly in the kitchen.  Dominica got right up and red …

February 21, 2009: More Carpet Cleaning

Liesl was up and very active a little before six this morning.  It was enough that it woke me up so I checked the alarmclock which Dominica had given me to use so that I could wake up in the morning and not knowing that she had it set almost twenty minutes fast I thought …

February 20, 2009: Carpet Shampooing Day

Liesl got Dominica up early this morning around seven but fell back asleep a little after seven thirty.  So, as we had run out of baby formula last night and it will be a pretty serious emergency if we do not have any today, Dominica ran to Stop & Shop at a quarter till eight …

February 19, 2009: Email Server Arrives in Canada

The cold weather has returned to downstate New York.  No doubt about that.  This morning wasn’t quite that bad but it was not warm by any stretch. I got a chance to take Oreo on a nice, long walk today.  There was a break in the weather when the wind was still and the rain …