Sheep Guarding Llama

Back in the office today for what feels like a one day week.  It is almost like not going to the office at all.  I actually worked a decently long day, getting in on the early side and staying a little late until after seven.  But it did not feel long at all.

Came home and worked a little bit, stayed logged into the office till about nine this evening.

Every night this week has been the girls begging to play Wind Waker.  So that is what we did tonight.  I am so far ahead of Dominica now that it is hard to believe that she was ahead of me for a while.  Now that I am past several of the really hard parts, the game is not so bad.

It was a very short night with me working so late.

That was it for us.  Very quite day.

Originally the whole family was going to take today to go into Manhattan to spend the day there.  We’ve not been to the city for years and the girls have never gotten to go there.  Liesl has been wanting to see it.  Luciana’s fever was pretty bad today, though, and not getting better like we had hoped so we had to give up on that.

We all drove down to the playground by the water front around ten this morning.  Unfortunately a bunch of older kids got to the playground right as we did.  Normally Liesl and Luciana get the place to themselves.

This evening we had dinner at the Westchester Diner since we were nearby.  It has been a while since we went there.  Dinner was good.  Luciana had mac and cheese.  Liesl had pancakes.

Did not get home from dinner until pretty late.  Just watched a little Wizards of Waverly Place and were off to bed at a reasonable time.

Luciana sneaked into our room at four this morning and snuggled with me until I got up at five thirty. She still had a pretty serious fever. When I left for the office I got her her morning’s chocolate milk and she went back to bed in her own bed, going right back to sleep.

I got into the office before eight again, even with it raining the whole way in.

While doing homeschool this morning, Liesl asked Dominica why there is still fighting in the Middle East today over the land – they had been learning about the fertile crescent in Liesl’s history lessons and she had remembered about the fighting going on there now and put it all together and remembered from her lessons! This school stuff is really working for her.

It continued to rain all morning in Connecticut.

I am off work again tomorrow.  Luciana’s fever is a bit worse tonight.  She is definitely not feeling well at all.  We can’t find anything wrong with her.  We are guessing that it is just a viral infection and she just has to work through it.  She is a trooper, though, and acts way better than her temperature would suggest.  She is sleepy but does not really complain about being sick or any aches or pains.

Got into work before eight this morning. Quite early for me. I’ve been slowly getting myself in earlier and earlier.

Dominica emailed to say that Ciana is feeling under the weather today and might be a bit on the warm side. She took a nap this afternoon while everyone was at the library again. Today was storytime at the Peekskill Library and Liesl got the “W” mat (I am not sure what that means) and sat front and center, really engrossed in the story and asked questions and everything. That is so perfect for the girls. Luciana sat with her mommy and fell asleep in her arms, though. Something is up with her for sure.

I was at work until well after seven not getting home until eight thirty. When I got there Luciana was sleeping against Dominica on the couch. I felt her and it was obvious that she really had a fever. I held her for a while, we got her some medicine and she was right off to bed. She could barely tell that I was home. Poor little girl.

Once Ciana was all set in bed I played an hour or more of Wind Waker for Liesl who was very insistent that I play more tonight. I got through one more, small part of the game and did some general exploring. Liesl had fun.

Did a little work tonight and got off to bed.

Got to work before eight this morning. That’s pretty early for me. We are hearing a rumour that we might have flash flooding tomorrow which is pretty hard to believe considering that it is bright and clear today. So I might leave a little early tomorrow to avoid the flooding if the storms hit early.

Mostly uneventful day. As are most days. I worked a little late but not bad tonight. Got home around seven thirty. No playground tonight. Dominica had a long day trying to get Liesl back into her school mindset. So they were not very happy with each other. Dominica and I talked for a while and we are both thinking that we want to move into Manhattan, potentially. I was pretty surprised because for the past decade she has not wanted to live there but now she thinks that she would like it. Our trip to Europe and spending time in so many large cities really changed her perspective on city life. That would make me much happier. Living “almost” in New York City but getting none of the benefits while paying the price in money and commuting overhead really sucks. Moving into the city would mean no need for cars, public or semi-public transport to the office, access to all of the great aspects of NY life. I am not a suburban person. Give me an estate in the country or an apartment downtown. Nothing in between.

Liesl and Luciana were both very insistent that we play Wind Waker tonight. Dominica was not up for it but I agreed to play it for a while to make them happy. And that kept us from watching any television tonight so that was good, in reality. The girls are really into the game and pay unbelievably close attention. It is very good for them. Liesl really has good memory and problem solving. And sometimes she even takes the controls from me and navigates something for me because I can’t remember where things are and she has a complete map of everything in the game in her head. It is really quite amazing.

We played for an hour and a half at least. Luciana ended up falling asleep on the couch. So I carried her up to bed.

I have to be in the office early again tomorrow so we were off to bed a little after eleven as soon as we were able to get Liesl to go to bed too.