Sheep Guarding Llama

It’s Monday at home with the girls and Dominica is at the office.  What a month April is proving to be.  Super busy and super stressful.  We found out that there are issues getting us paid this month and by the time that I finally get a paycheck, if all goes well, it will be over a month since my last one!  That is pretty stressful.  Not that money has been super tight, it hasn’t, but it hasn’t been abundant either.  With me taking my grad classes and paying for them out of pocket and with our renters in New York losing their jobs and not being able to pay even one third of our mortgage there (and then losing their jobs entirely and needing to leave but at the last minute being able to stay at the reduced rate) we are just in really rough shape.  If I get paid regularly and Dominica keeps working like she has been all is fine but going five weeks without a paycheck really hits hard.

I had a pretty busy day at home.  The girls are getting better and better, for the most part, with being home with me and understanding that they cannot be in my office bugging me all of the time.  It sucks because I am home and want to be able to spend time with them but they really don’t understand that to be able to spend time with them I need to be able to check things constantly and when I am needed, I am needed instantly.  So they get far, far less time with me than they would if they were able to let me hang out with them when I can and really work when I have to.  So I am stuck not playing with them much at all because they don’t let me get to work when necessary.  We really wish that we had a nanny – it would make life so much easier.  Of course, everyone with kids says that so that doesn’t mean much.  Like everyone wishes they had a mechanic who just waiting in the garage until the car needed maintenance.

We have a busy weekend coming up.  Another email migration so Dominica is not looking forward to that.  It’s another busy week here in the Miller household.

The end of the weekend.  We took today to mostly just hang out at home.  Not too much work going on today so we were able to spend some time as a family.  With my school, though, every Sunday is a bit of work that can’t be avoided.  I cannot wait until that is done.  I have about five weeks left to go at this point, I believe.

This evening I drove down to Josey Ranch and picked up Subway for dinner.  I normally get two tuna salad subs on wheat for Dominica and I and a cheese on Italian for Liesl.  I brought food home and we watching Community, which is our new favourite show, and ate our dinners.

After being in California last week and weekend and then Easter in Houston and getting back late to Dallas this was just a week of attempting to play catch up with our schedules.  Today is our quiet home day, we didn’t go anywhere or really do anything.  Just a lot of catching up around the house.  Got it cleaned up a bit.  We are all glad to be home.  I’m starting to fall behind on SGL, so much going on I just can’t get to it.

Today is my early morning so I had to be up around five and into the office quite early.  Kind of tired today.  The last few weeks have been really busy.  And school is just added on top of everything else.  Today was just a long day at work.  Even starting early I did not get home until really late.

Today is my work from home day this week while Dominica is in the office.  So I got to spend the day with my girls.  They are getting better and better at being good when I am home.  They are used to not being able to be in my office all of the time and making lots of noise.  Luciana is finally old enough that she and Liesl can play games together all day long too which is great.  They are getting to be really good at entertaining themselves in fun, social, educational activity.  Liesl is great at making up games and Luciana just loves following along after her participating in whatever she can.  They are so cute.