Sheep Guarding Llama

Today is our one full day of just me and the girls.

Today we spent most of the day just hanging out.  We slept in then I re-introduced Liesl to The Wizards of Waverly Place which she kind of remembered from when she was very little but she really did not remember any of the show so it was basically like she was seeing it for the first time but it felt a little familiar.  It took a few episodes for her to warm up to it but once she did she was really into it.  Luciana liked it from the start but never got as excited as Liesl.  We actually managed to watch the entire first season today!

The best part of the show was whenever the title music would come on Liesl would jump up and dance like crazy to it.  So funny.

For dinner I ordered in from the Chinese restaurant that allows us to order completely online.  That’s so nice we will probably never do anything else.  I tried out their sweet and sour shrimp this evening and some other tofu items that I knew would keep so that we would have leftovers tomorrow.  The girls, of course, just got vegetables lomein.  One of their favourite dishes.

We played some Wind Waker this evening but it was incredibly frustrating because we got to a spot where I am stuck.  Really unsure if I will be able to continue playing.

Luciana got upset at bedtime tonight and ended up putting herself to bed in her own room alone.  Very unusual.

We got to sleep in some this morning.  We had originally thought that Dominica’s ride was going to come this morning but she didn’t end up coming until twelve thirty.  I suppose that I could have gone into the office and worked a half day but that is just way too much driving for only working half of a day.  Could have been as much as three hours in the car plus all the stress of racing back to get home in time for Dominica to get on the road.  It would have been a bad time investment.  If I am taking the day of, I should also take off from driving all of that way or it is really silly.

So the morning was mostly just getting Dominica ready to go.  We didn’t really do anything.  It was nice to just relax.  It is so rare that I have a three day weekend and I get to spend it at home!

Before leaving, Dominica ran out and did some shopping.  She managed to stop and get Subway for all of us which we ate shortly before she left.  That left me with some leftovers for Liesl which would make the weekend easier.

Dominica was off at twelve thirty and now it is just the kids and me until Sunday afternoon.

The girls have really been looking forward to me playing Wind Waker once Dominica was gone.  So that was a big focus of the day.  I am well behind Dominica in the game and need to do a lot of catching up to be where she is.  It is handy that Liesl has watched Dominica play it and remembers absolutely everything and was able to help me extensively.  By the end of the evening I was almost exactly where Dominica is in the game.  Now tomorrow I can work on getting ahead of her.  Liesl is rooting for “team daddy” as she calls it.  Liesl loves turning all of the mundane things in life into competitions.

The girls were excited that they got to sleep in our room tonight.  They were looking forward to not having to sleep in their own room all week.  And for two guaranteed nights in a row, a rare treat for them.  They would never sleep in their own rooms if it was up to them.  And they would never sleep in ours if it was up to Dominica as she likes having a lot of free space.

Pretty relaxing day in the office today, it’s my “Friday” because tomorrow, the real Friday, I am taking a vacation day to stay home with the girls.  This is going to be a really fun weekend of just us with Dominica away.  We’ve been looking forward to it all week.

I worked a little late tonight, wanted to make sure that all of my ducks were in a row before tomorrow.  Then tonight was quiet, just the family hanging out and off to bed at a decent time.

And my mini vacation has begun.

Today is Wednesday, past the halfway point of my short week.  I decided that I am just going to take off this Friday rather than trying to figure out how to do a half day.  There is so much driving required to get into the office that doing a half day really is not worth it, I don’t think.  I could pull it off but it would be a waste.

Today was a long day for me, I stayed quite late in the evening, till about eight, to get some work done.  Knowing that I am taking Friday off completely made it make sense.  So I was in the office and then drove home not getting there until around nine.

So it was a very short night for us.  A little time with the girls and off to bed.

Pretty much just a normal day for me today. Got into work at a good time this morning. Looking forward to taking either a half day on Friday or maybe taking the whole day off. Will just be home with the girls. I am sure that they will make me play many hours of Wind Waker.

Got home this evening and at first the girls did not feel like going to the playground but after a few minutes they changed their minds and we went for a walk and actually spent a bit more time at the playground than we usually do. We had to change where we sit tonight as a really brave dragonfly decided to create a flight pattern that took it nearly into collisions with us over and over again. It seemed strangely aggressive. We had a nice time on the playground though and the girls have asked to be able to go swimming tomorrow. Hopefully they can.

Dominica was hungry tonight so made a vegan stir fry and we had that and watched a little 30 Rock. Luciana put herself to bed quite early. Liesl spent the entire evening on her school work – she absolutely loves her new reading “game” on Dominica’s Windows laptop and is making incredible reading progress. That was money very well spent already.

Dominica got Liesl ready for bed tonight as I had some work that had to be done before I could go to bed. So I was up till almost midnight getting things caught up.