January 8, 2018: Liesl Likes Chili Ramen Noodles

Monday.  Another family week at the Miller house.  Got up and head breakfast before the girls started school.  I made Liesl spicy chili ramen noodles for lunch.  We are surprised to find that she is really into the spicy flavours again.  She only uses half a packet of spice, though.

Luciana came in to my office and had me do some school with her today.

Luciana Doing School in her Owl Pajamas

Luciana is addicted to her new owl pajamas.  They are her new favourite.  We are a very big pajama family.  It’s what we wear every day.

This evening we watched more of our Are You Being Served? marathon.  We are nearing the end of it.

January 6, 2018: Getting the Kids Back

Saturday. Today Dominica and I drove down to Houston so that we could pick up Liesl and Luciana and bring them back up to Dallas. So that took us most of the day.

Five hours down, and we hung out down in Houston for a few hours.  Then five hours back up to Dallas.  We were very tired once we got back home.

We just ordered in Chinese takeaway to make things nice and easy this evening.  No one felt like doing anything.

January 5, 2018: Last Day Without the Kids

Friday.  Today is our last day in Dallas without the kids.  We will be driving down to Houston tomorrow to pick them up since the Grice kids are about to head back to school on Monday and need this weekend to catch up on rest and get ready for school.

Today I built some wiki.js systems.  Seems like a nice wiki, quite fast.

This evening Dominica and I took advantage of being kid free for one last night and went out to Sherlock’s for an evening of live music at a younger bar.  We’ve not managed to get out to go drinking in Addison together in a very long time.

We are regularly finding that there are so many things that we felt like we “just did recently” and that that was actually half a decade ago in 2013 just before we moved away from this house!  It’s unreal to us how long we have not been living here, but how much it feels like we never left.

The band tonight was quite good and the bar was very busy.  We had a nice evening out.

January 4, 2018: ML Updates

Thursday.   Busy day of work and posting today.  Did a major ML update to a new server instance today, even more power for more speed.

I’ve been so busy this past month that I’ve not even checked in on SW in three weeks!  It’s been very freeing.

Danielle had to work in NYC today and ended up getting stuck on Amtrak in a blizzard on her way down there.