March 13, 2014: A Day of Tea

Got up before seven this morning, no alarm needed.  This week, the one after the change to DST, is always so hard for me to adjust to.  I pretty much lose this entire week as far as productivity goes.

We were worried that we were going to get a lot of snow last night after the blizzard that hit back home in Rochester yesterday.  We had gotten some serious snow warnings and saw a little snow come down last night but when I checked out the window this morning it was clear and the drive into the office was fine.  Cold, with temperatures in the mid teens, but no snow and very clear.  Even a little sun once I was in the office.

Dominica said that the girls got up this morning and did not even leave their room.  They are so excited about their new tea set that they woke up and started playing with it in their room right away.  They spent most of the day just playing tea in their room.

When I got home, of course, we had to have a tea party.  Liesl is absolutely loving this new game.

March 12, 2014: The New Tea Set

This morning my day started off with me working at an offsite location, always a nice change of pace.  That ate up the bulk of my morning so I was “out” until almost lunch.

Overall it was a pretty busy day and I did not managed to head home until seven.  Today the girls’ new tea set that Dominica ordered for them the other day arrived.  The girls have been playing with Liesl’s old tea set for a long time but it is just a play tea set, not a real one.  This one is actually able to be used for tea and they were so excited to get it.

When I finally got home tonight, the girls met me at the door and were so happy to get to show me their new tea set.  The whole living room floor was wet with all of the water that they had been spilling there all day.  They were really having a good time, though.

Before nine, Luciana just decided that she wanted to go to bed and at a quarter till ten Liesl decided that she wanted to.   Very strange children volunteering to go to bed early.

I had a call at ten and did that for forty five minutes.  Then straight to bed myself.  Going to bed would have gone much more quickly had I not lost my iPhone (in a pile of laundry on our bed) which resulted in me spending at least half an hour looking for it.

March 10, 2014: One Week In

It’s Monday so back to work. The weather was decently warm today. I was feeling a little tired, though. Not much to report from the office, except that I got a new desktop today. Quad core i7 and 16GB of RAM. Pretty impressive as office machines go. I have never had anything like this before.

Today was the one week mark at MangoLassi. Hard to believe it has only been one week, there has been so much great activity there. It has been an exciting week.

I left work just before six thirty. Once home we spent the evening down in the basement which we are so thankful to have gotten so much cleaner recently. It is decently comfortable down there these days. Luciana came down to the basement with us and mostly just played on her own quietly. Liesl decided to stay upstairs and watch her own shows by herself. I guess that she needed some quiet time. Liesl told me that she spent her day today watching Futurama. I thought that that was pretty funny.

Dominica and I have been watching Keeping Up Appearances again. Actually she has been watching it while I listen. I have been spending evenings at the desk in the basement getting work done.

Luciana has started going to bed earlier as she has not been getting enough sleep.  So she was in bed before nine. Liesl is a night owl and was up till almost midnight when she and Dominica went to bed. I ended up staying up till after three thirty! Going to be on the tired side tomorrow for sure.