August 1, 2014: We Are All Ready for the Weekend

It’s Friday, nearly the weekend.  I was up early today so took care of paying the bills before leaving for the office.  Kept reading “Founding Brothers” on my way in today.

Got into work earlyish.  Nothing too exciting today.  It was a pretty quiet day, in fact.  Got home at not a bad time, around seven thirty.  I thought that we would be going to the playground tonight but Dominica said that it had been raining much of the day and everything was wet.  Liesl did not feel like going to the playground anyway so we decided against it.  Thankfully Luciana was happy with “can we go tomorrow?”

I did a little work upstairs, maybe forty-five minutes.  Then we put no 30 Rock and watched that for much of the evening.  Luciana was ready for bed around nine thirty so we put her in our bed because she did not feel like being alone in her own room.  We watched just one more episode and then Liesl was ready for bed too.  She hates going to bed or even going upstairs to get ready for bed on her own so I agreed to go upstairs and work in the bedroom for a while so that I would be up there with her.  She liked that idea.
So I ended up going to bed decently early after getting caught up on several things.  The girls both slept in our room.  I have no idea when Dominica came to bed.  Once she gets it into her head to stay up she tends to stay up very late.

July 31, 2014: The End of July

I say this nearly every month but wow, it is already the end of July!  Most of 2014 is already gone. Very depressing.

It’s Thursday.  The week has flown by for sure.  Had a number of important calls today and spent some time out in the fresh air catching up with people.

We did not go to the playground this evening.  Dominica was just not feeling like it and if the girls are not vocal enough about wanting to go we sometimes don’t.

Mostly a quiet evening.

July 30, 2014: A Little More Wind Waker

It’s hump day and very little to report.  This week feels, overall, to be pretty uneventful.  We are still catching our breath from everything that has been going on recently.  Getting a chance to just hang out as a family again.  We’ve seen so little of each other this past month.

After work we all went to the playground again.  We love doing this as it lets the kids burn off steam and we all get some fresh air and exercise which is always hard to come by.

I played a like Wind Waker tonight.  The girls really like it when I play it and they want me to play it a lot more than I want to play it.  I find the game pretty much boring and frustrating.  It relies on a lot of boring action and hack and slash stuff that I do not enjoy and tells little to no story which is the part that I care about.  And the graphics, while the best ever from Nintendo, remain incredibly lame.  Like 2002 era lame.  Maybe not even that good.  They are still struggling to make games look acceptable for the PlayStation 2!!

So I played for a short while and got through the first major dungeon and then hung up my sword for the evening.

July 29, 2014: Founding Brothers

Got up at five this morning. Right after I got up, Liesl did too and sneaked into our room because she was lonely so she climbed into bed with Luciana and Dominica.

Starting reading “Founding Brothers” this morning on my drive in.  Slowly working through my backlog of Audible titles that I have yet to read.  It is amazing how many titles I have stored up and now long it can take to work through them all, even putting in a few hours every day doing so!

Tonight when I got home it was right up the hill to the playground.  Luciana always wants to go much more than Liesl does these days.  It was a shorter night on the playground tonight.

Watching some 30 Rock this evening.

July 28, 2014: Everyone Is Okay

Ah back to the grind. The weekend is already over. Hard to believe. It goes by so quickly. And this was an exceptionally eventful weekend too. Both girls are feeling well this morning. No lingering issues from the weekend. Thank goodness.

Busy day at work. Got home at nearly eight. Luciana had had a rough day and was sent upstairs a while before I got home. I went upstairs and found her fast asleep in our bed. Unfortunately Dominica had not though to put a pull up on her and she had peed the bed in her sleep and had not even woken up. That is how tired she was.

We woke her up to get her dressed to go to the playground and she kept asking “is daddy here” even though I was holding her and talking to her. She couldn’t understand that I was there. She was seriously groggy.

Liesl did not feel like going to the playground but Luciana begged but we knew that they both need to be worn out or they won’t sleep tonight so we took them as late as it was. So we walked up to the playground anyway. It had rained today so everything was wet. They decided to spend the time running around on the wood chips rather than playing on the playground set. They burned a lot of energy.

It was nearly nine by the time that we got back. I worked for about fifteen minutes then we watched an episode of 30 Rock and it was time to get the girls heading off to bed.

Tonight Liesl was the one who managed to fall asleep and Luciana was up for hours. Eventually Luciana came downstairs and snuggled with me for an episode and a half and then we all went to bed. Ciana asked if she could sleep in our room and Dominica was feeling generous. Ciana was very happy and pretty much went straight to sleep there.