January 24, 2014: Tripping Over Liesl

I got up at five twenty this morning, showered and tripped over Liesl who had camped out on the floor in front of the bathroom door in the darkness so that she could be sure to get a hug and a kiss before I left for work. She didn’t want to go back to bed until she had seen me off. She is so sweet. Once she had given me a long hug she climbed into bed with Dominica and went back to sleep. This getting up midway through the night and then sleeping in late is becoming a pattern with her. She goes to bed around eleven, gets up for ten minutes around five and sleeps in until ten. Luciana almost always sleeps straight through the night.

Five degrees today as I headed in. At least it is warming up a little bit. I got into the office nice and early. I am glad today is Friday. It has been a short week but I am looking forward to a relaxed family weekend.

Thought that I would manage to make it home on the early side today but that didn’t work out.  Ended up getting stuck late working on a few things.  It wasn’t horrible but decently late making for a long day on a Friday.

Quiet evening with the family.  Not a very long one.

January 23, 2014: Two Normal Work Days

I was supposed to be up very early this morning and I had set an alarm on my phone but the phone turned off and no alarm sounded. Luckily Liesl came into our room ten minutes after my alarm should have gone off and she got me up and then climbed into bed and snuggled with Dominica when I got up to get to work. Liesl has always been my little organic alarm clock. She is very good about getting people up in the morning half of the time. The other half she sleeps in for forever. She is always either the first or the last one awake, never in moderation. I guess that she gets that from me. I’m always either up at five in the morning or struggling to get out of bed by nine. Never anything in the middle.

Today was one of my two full days in the office this week. The storms and the holiday made the first part of the week abnormal and short. It was nice. Today and tomorrow are the long ones.

It was a good office day today. I felt very good about work and am overall much happier today.

A short evening with the family but we had a lot of time together all week. And the weekend is only two days away. It is tough getting so little time at home these days. I don’t get enough time with the family and since I get so little with them I spend every moment that I am at home with the girls which means that I have no time for my writing or school work which really needs my attention. Not to mention doing things around the house. The available time at home is just way too short these days. If only the commute was not so long.

January 22, 2014: Lingering Snow

Due to the big storm yesterday, we had a late start a the office this morning so I got to sleep in and spend an hour with the girls before venturing out for the nearly two hour drive into the office.  This is the second short day of the week and it is only a four day week.  Things were slow at work today, as you can imagine.

So by the end of the day it really felt like a vacation week.  Only two full days of work to do this week.  I got a lot of time with the girls this week.  It’s been great.

The day did not really go late either.  Got home and had a nice evening with the family.