Sheep Guarding Llama

After work, I came home and we found that Liesl still had her splinter.  We watched Funny Face tonight, which strangely I have never seen before.  Not the best classic film but a well known one.

I honestly put the girls to bed and went straight to bed myself at ten.  Dominica stayed up to watch Charade after I went to bed.

Liesl had insomnia last night and came in to sleep with us. Even now that she is five and a half and Luciana is not quite three, Liesl is still the one that asks to sleep with us at least three quarters of the time. It was so warm tonight that we had the bedroom window open and had fresh air. Finally, we’ve been missing that. Dominica has been opening the back door a bit recently too. We are so tired of the winter. Time for it to be over.

I got up early this morning, it was just after five. But I couldn’t bring myself to get out of bed for a while. Liesl was very snuggly and the birds were out singing which was great with the window open. So I was lazy.

Got up still relatively early and took care of some bills and stuff before heading into the office. Traffic was horrible this morning and it took at least half an hour longer than it should have to get to work. That did not make me happy at all.

It was chilly when I headed out this morning but got into the fifties today and was a very nice day. I wish that I could have been outside for a bit. Maybe spring is actually here.

Good, productive day at work today and thank goodness the weather is great now. It is warm, pushing into the high fifties, and sunny. Very nice. At home, Dominica opened up the windows and made the back deck accessible and the girls spent a lot of time playing outside today getting some fresh air. Dominica missed not having a deck at our Texas house, I can tell, a place where the girls can just go outside and play and she does not need to monitor them because they are essentially inside of the house. Liesl had that when she was two and we lived in the apartment in Texas because we had that tiny balcony but Luciana never lived there. It’s a nice feature to have.

While they were outside, Liesl was running her hand along the railing and got herself her very first splinter. She didn’t know what to do and ended up breaking it off and getting it buried deep in her finger so she just had to wait for it to work itself out which is going to take a while.

Came home and we had a nice evening just hanging out as the family. Nothing exciting tonight, but a lot of family time.

Tuesday.  The weather is improving.  Not even a hint of cold today.  Nice and warm all day.  We are starting to open the windows in the house now.

Dominica did some painting today.  We have some touch of painting that is needed in the back of the house so she did the first coats of that today. One of the benefits to being back in our own house is that this simple stuff we are able to deal with ourselves rather than having to hire other people to do it and never being sure if they really have done the work or not.

Just a quiet evening with the family tonight.  We had the back door open much of the evening as it is so warm.  So nice to have fresh air all of the time again.

Monday and back to work.  This is the first week where we are expecting a nice week for the entire week.  This is spring for sure.  Or at least it seems like it might be.  The drive this morning, though, was a little cold and while it never got below freezing there was one moment on my drive when a bunch of ice fell onto the car.  It was only for a second, but it happened.  Very odd.

At the office people reported traffic from farther south being awful and that there was bad weather in the city.  People were taking an extra hour to get into the office.   But the weather was nice by later in the day.

I’m continuing my project of standing in the living room instead of sitting on the couch.  It makes it so that the girls can’t climb all over me while I have the laptop and it keeps me from just melting in the couch and not doing anything all night.  It also keeps me from being in the bad posture of sitting down all day long.

Sunday at home with the family.  I slept in this morning and Dominica got up early and made home made scones.  They were amazing.  Last night she had started making clotted cream which was ready this morning.  So the whole family went scone crazy and we ate tons of scones this morning.  They and the clotted cream were amazing.

Today was my day to experiment with a “standing desk.”  I set up a laptop on the side table with some boxes stacked on it to make the laptop be right at the height that I need to be able to stand and work while being right in the middle of the living room.  So far I am really liking it.  I am so much more able to do things around the house while still keeping on top of things.  This is so much more conducive to the way that I like to work.  I can use the laptop but also do stuff around the house.

We watched more original series of Star Trek today and some more of Cheers.

Tonight we watched Houseboat which is always a good classic.