Sheep Guarding Llama

It’s Friday!  Slept in late this morning.  Luciana was up at a normal time, around nine.  Liesl did not get up until half past noon!  She has not been getting enough sleep recently. We have been noticing her being pretty grumpy for days and we are not surprised that she needs a lot of sleep.

Dominica went out to do some shopping this morning.  That always takes her three hours at least.  It’s always a rush for her to get back to the house before I start work around noon.  I have a video conference call at noon every day to be on so she tries to be home to keep the kids occupied during that.  Otherwise they would be bopping into the call talking about their toys or chocolate milk or something.

Dominica got back and I worked all day.  Nothing too exciting.

This evening we ordered “in” dinner from Cheddars which Dominica and Francesca went and picked up for everyone.  We all ate and the food was pretty good, although my salmon was very overcooked, and then it was time for a movie.

Tonight’s movie was The Glass Bottom Boat with Doris Day.  Everyone liked it.

After that we watched the first episode of the second season of Father Ted.  Everyone enjoyed that too.

We also watched the Rick Steves Season Eight revisit to the Cinque Terre in Italy.  Brittany has been watching the original one but has not seen the current one (post mudslide.)

Then it was off to bed for everyone.

It is a quiet Thursday here in Houston.  Dominica did school with the girls today, it was a very rough day for that, though.  Both Dominica and Liesl were very tired and Liesl was not in the mood for the anything other than her math class and they ended up fighting for much of the day.  It did not go well at all.

Work was fine for me.  Very quiet.  I am all set up now with a full office space in the “den” area on the second floor in the back corner behind the pool table.  I have a folding plastic desk set up and my desktop and 27″ monitor set up again.  It is so much more comfortable to work now.  And I am out of the way and not just set up in the middle of the house which was pretty awful for everyone.  Now I am really out of the way and in my own space.  My desktop is also cabled in so many fewer network issues now too.  I have a feeling that I will start being a little bit productive again.  Working with nothing but a laptop, on the kitchen table, with only the small laptop screen is not a good way to get things done.

Thirty nine years old.  Happy Birthday to me.

I slept in this morning until nine thirty.  That was like ten hours of sleep.  I never do that!

Dominica was up early today and went to Target to do some shopping before the girls woke up around eight thirty.  She was gone until a quarter till noon.  Mostly utilitarian shopping, nothing exciting or of note except for a cute, pink rain slick for Liesl.

Luciana was up with me for most of the morning.  She woke up while I was in the shower.  Brittany had gone to work very early in the morning.  Joe was still around and Luciana taught him how to make her chocolate milk for her; she was excited about that.  He was off to work before I saw him, though.

Liesl was a sleepy-head today and slept until eleven thirty!  I have no idea what wore her out so much.  Apparently she really needed some sleep, just like me.

Liesl’s second math textbook arrived today and she was so excited to get to work on her math class some more.  She was actually screaming and jumping up and down, she was so excited to get to do more of her math class.  It is amazing how much she loves learning.

We didn’t do too much today.  I worked all day and Dominica and Liesl did school.  After work was over we had dinner and then some cupcakes that Dominica had picked up.  A very quiet birthday.

Today was mostly uneventful.  Everyone was home this morning but by early afternoon, shortly after I had started work for the day, Dominica, the girls and their Aunt Brittany all went out to see Madeline and Emily’s tennis match so they were gone all afternoon.  It was a quiet day for me.

It was around six when they got back home, maybe later.  I ended up working pretty much all evening and so did not even get dinner.  I was never really hungry for it and it never really came up.

This evening Dominica and watched Sleepy Hollow and are nearly caught up.  It was late when we started so we only made it through one and a half episodes.  It was on the early side when we got off to bed.

It is Monday, everyone is back to work.  Nothing much to report here at the Tocco house in Houston.  Relaxing morning then worked all day.  Dominica has been super busy working on the plans for the trip to Walt Disney World with the family coming up in a few weeks so that has been taking literally every moment of her days since we have been here and looks like it is going to eat up all of her time until they go.  She has been so busy with that that she completely forgot about doing school with Liesl today!