Sheep Guarding Llama

Wednesday. Somewhat busy day with the kids and family down here in Houston.  It is Dominica’s mother’s birthday, so we celebrated that this evening.

We’ve been pretty much just sitting around the house, visiting with family, playing games on Steam, or watching television since Christmas.

A quiet day to recover from Christmas.  Helped the kids with their new toys today, they have so many things to play with.  We had to get a lot of them packed up and into the car just so that there was room to move around the house.  Dominica and I are able to stay in Houston for a few days because the incredibly cold weather that we have been expecting in Dallas is going to hold off until the weekend.  So we get to relax a little bit.

Merry Christmas, everyone!  We had our traditional Christmas at the Grices’ this year.  We managed to sleep in a little more than usual, but not much.  We had our regular marathon of presents and were exhausted by the middle of the afternoon, as usual.

The girls had a really nice Christmas and love all of their stuff.  Luciana had an extremely “crafty” Christmas this year.  She has really gotten into arts and crafts as her “thing”, she calls it DIY stuff.

This is it, Christmas Eve, the night before the big show.  It’s a big cooking day, the women were busy all day making food.  I hid much of the day upstairs working on Skyrim when I got the chance.  Tonight, of course, once we got the kids off to bed in their new pajamas it was time for the many hours of setting up the house for tomorrow morning.

Saturday. Today I took my chance to get some time on the Steam laptop to myself. I have been doing a huge amount of web migrations from A Small Orange over to Hostadillo this week so that NTG can close down their ASO contract and save a few hundred dollars a year and now that that is basically done and things have slowed down for the holiday I am taking some time while the cousins spend time playing together to get my winter week of video gaming started.  This is the only real time that I get to play video games all year, pretty consistently.

So after a few years of playing, I am settling in to try to get to the end of Skyrim.  I have a long way to go.  But it gives me a chance to escape and get some quiet time to myself.

The kids all watched a bit of Coyote Peterson together in the upstairs living room today.  That is one of my favourite shows that they watch on YouTube.

Today, Emily and I went out and picked up Subway for the family for dinner.