Sheep Guarding Llama

A quiet Sunday in the Miller household.

This evening we played Wind Waker for a while but got stuck and I needed time to go look some things up before we would be able to play again.  So we switched to playing Space Quest IV which we were able to complete tonight.  The girls loved it, as they have loved all of the Space Quest games.  We fired up Space Quest V just so that they could get a look at it too as they are always desperate to know what the next game in the series is going to look like.  SQ4 had full voice acting which was nice, but the graphics were poor.  SQ5 improves the graphics a lot both in quality and style.  It is good enough to be really enjoyable from a graphical perspective.  But it drops voice acting in favour of cartoon dialogue balloons which is well done but not as nice.  I’ve heard that SQ6 has even better graphics and goes back to the voice acting.  One can hope.

Tonight we talked Liesl into trying out watching Back to the Future.  She has never seen any of these movies and neither Dominica nor I have seen any of them in a very, very long time.  They were such classic and iconic movies of the 1980s and I feel so very attached to them but now, going to watch them again with the girls, they feel so insanely long ago and far away.  But Liesl enjoyed watching the first movie and we had a good time.

It is Saturday.  Weekends are tough and stressful when you spend your entire weekend waiting on information and if that information does not arrive then you are stuck going over the weekend sitting around with the same concerns but only knowing that you cannot even be waiting on anything as there is no one that could possibly have any information for you.  So the weekends get to be pretty tough too!  It is just a really rough situation.

Based on information from yesterday, we are pretty confident that my time at Bridgewater is going to be coming to an end in the very near future, but we don’t really have any details yet.  But we think that it will only be a couple more days at most.  What happens then, we really have no idea.

We took today to just spend time as a family.  We’ve not had a lot of time together yet so we are still just having fun getting to be together.

It’s Friday.  Still no news on anything.  There rarely is on a Friday.  Going into another weekend wondering what next week is going to be like.

Another day of just spending time at home with the family.  The girls are still pretty much continuously attached to me.  We’ve really missed each other.

Dominica went out and did some quick shopping as the house is completely out of everything.  She had a salon appointment downtown today so she went there and brought home Subway for dinner.  The girls were happy to be hanging out with me all afternoon and always excited to get Subway, although in reality it is Liesl who is very excited and we are lucky if we can get Luciana to eat one quarter of the sandwich.  But it remains Liesl’s favourite food to get.

Dominica and I did some house cleaning today.  I did a bit earlier this week so the house is not looking too bad at the moment.

My first full day with the family back home.  This is great.  I feel so much better.  Today was a day to do nothing but relax and hang out together.  Mostly just spending time in the living room.  Lots of snuggle time.

Got the kids to bed at a decent time tonight.  Tomorrow is Friday.  No idea what is going on with the work situation yet.  Still just waiting to find out.  It has been a long month.  Not likely to hear anything tomorrow since it is Friday.

Today is the big day.  I get to see my family again.  I got up this morning, did a tiny bit of cleaning, caught up on email, showered and was pretty much out the door right away.  It is a long drive to the airport and the girls are arriving late this morning so there really is not very much time to spare.  I was out the door at about nine forty five.

On the way out of Cortlandt I stopped at the Maple Ave. Deli and grabbed an egg and cheese on a croissant to eat in the car as I did not have any time to eat before leaving.  I had the Acadia and made good time since rush hour was already over.

The drive south went fine.  I got to the Whitestone Bridge without any traffic and without needing directions, which was important as Waze stopped working on my phone completely so I had no GPS option anyway.

Their flight ended up touching down a full half an hour early and Dominica was texting me before I had completely crossed the Whitestone Bridge into Queens!  Much earlier than I had expected.  I rushed to get down there and actually the timing was perfect, they had their luggage and were coming out the doors just as I pulled into the arrivals area.  I was able to see Dominica waving and pulled over right away.  It could not have been easier.  I jumped out of the car and ran to my girls who jumped into my arms.  Well Liesl jumped, Luciana was in the stroller.  Hugs and kisses and then back to the house.

It was around one when we got back home.  We spent the day catching up, it has been so long.  The girls mostly just snuggled with me on the couch all day.  They had so much to tell me about all of the things that they have been doing down in Texas.