Sheep Guarding Llama

Dominica and I were up late last night.  Luckily, just late enough that I decided to take a shower before going to bed.  While I was in the shower I missed a few phone calls from the office.  Luckily I looked at my mobile before going to bed and saw that I was needed.  So I logged into the office and ended up working until six in the morning!  The upside is is that I will be home all day tomorrow and will get to spend some time with dad since he is here.  So that worked out pretty well, in a way.

I slept in until around ten which was still a super short night of sleep, less than four hours, but it was enough.  I got up and got logged into the office around ten thirty.  It’s nice that I get to be home today so I get to spend the day with dad rather than being in the office today, on his first full day in Texas.

The girls are so excited that grandpa is here all day.  They are having so much fun having him to play with them all day.  They don’t know what to do with themselves.  The biggest issue now is the two of them fighting over who gets to spend the most time with grandpa.

The project with the girls today was to paint masks that dad had brought for them.  Liesl thought that it was great fun painting her mask and wearing it around the house.

Today is the day.  Dad gets into Dallas this afternoon.  Liesl is so excited that she can’t stand it at all.  She is ready to explode with anticipation.  She sure misses her grandpa.

I was up and into the office early this morning.  I worked through lunch to make sure that I was as caught up as possible and this afternoon I ran to the post office to get the first two boxes of books that I have ready to go shipped off to Seattle.  Shipping books via USPS is surprisingly cheap.  I had no idea.

I had to rush because dad’s flight got in about half an hour early from Detroit.  So I got back to the office, made sure that I was caught up and ran to the airport at two.  I timed it just about perfectly as dad had just walked to the curb to call and let me know that he was there as I came past the first terminal so he only had to wait about three minutes for me to pull up to the curb and I didn’t have to make any airport loops.

From the airport we drove straight to his hotel in Addison so that we could be sure that he got checked in and that everything was in order.  Unfortunately the manager wasn’t there to check him in when they were supposed to be so we got stuck waiting for her to return for over half an hour.  Good thing that I had my phones on my so that I could be watching email and letting Dominica know what had happened to us.  Poor Liesl was stuck waiting a bit longer to see grandpa.

Once we got dad checked in we went straight over to the house so that he could see the girls.  Liesl was so excited when he got there that she just ran around the house, back and forth, as she does.

I worked from home for the last little bit of the day and then we all went to Brookhaven for kids’ night on the early side as we were all very hungry.

It was a “quiet” night of dad playing with the kids.  Then I drove him back to his hotel so that he could get some sleep.

Today is the last day before dad comes down to Texas for his annual two week long winter visit.  Liesl has been counting down the days for weeks.  Every day she asks how much longer it will be and how many days until she sees grandpa.  It’s Monday so I am home with Liesl and Luciana while Dominica is at the office.

I had a lot of office work to do today so I wasn’t able to get a lot of house cleaning done beyond that.  The girls were perfect angels today, though, so I did get some done and they did not make a mess of the house as they often do, thankfully.

Dominica didn’t have a super long day today which was good since she will be frantically cleaning tomorrow before dad arrives in the afternoon.

Nothing exciting, just cleaning the house and trying to get ahead on all of the work that I need to do before dad gets down to Texas.  We got a ton of cleaning done today, the house is looking pretty good.  It is the cleanest that we have had it since before the holidays.

Today is the final weekend before dad comes on Tuesday so this weekend is our major cleaning weekend.  I have quite a bit of work that I need to get done so that I have time to visit once dad is here.  I worked quite a bit and we cleaned like crazy.  So much to do.  We did heavy duty cleaning, like getting lots of things boxed, organized, moved to the garage, etc.

This afternoon we went to Denny’s for dinner as we often do on Saturdays now.  Luciana loves Denny’s ranch dressing and gets all excited if we mention going there.

The house is looking good but there is a lot more to do.