A day at home.

Sorry everybody but today was a bit mondane. 

I would like to first start out by saying I had no sleep last night. As I did last year, I typically write these post after the girls go to bed. I try to get some quite time after that by watching some episodes that I downloaded to by tpeablet. When all is said and done, it’s about midnight. Normally, I would take my sleeping pill around 10ish so by the time I’m ready to sleep, I’m out. But last night I forgot to take it or I should say by the time I realized I did not take it, it was too late. With trazadone you really need a minimum of 8 hours otherwise you just can’t function very well. Therefore, I starred at the ceil to about 3am, then went to the living room till 5am, then back to the bedroom till….whenever. I think I caught about an hour of sleep somewhere between 6 and 7am.

Okay, the day would be a stay at home day as Sanija has a ton of homework to do and Nata has her studies as well. Which worked out well as we were having a cleaning lady come by at 1pm to clean the apartment down to the last spec. She was here for a couple of hours and cost us about $30. That’s thirty bucks well spent. We know this week we will have a visit from the orphans court representative and we want the place to look spotless.

Although, we did not hear from Ilze, we should have issue the care and supervision papers today and this will allow us to travel outside of Riga with Nata.

Around 12ish today, while Sheri was working with Sanija, I took Nata out for a few errands around town. This was a fun bonding time with her and I think she enjoyed it. Something tells me that Sanija has passed along a few of the things she has learn over the past year to Nata….like daddy buys more things than mommy does. Or as Sheri would say, “I’m a push over when it comes to my girls”.  In my defense I must say………..ummm……..what about th……….Okay True! I have no defense. But I love my girls and when they look up at me with those puppy dog eyes…….I…I just melt!

Sheri today was not also at her best. She doesn’t know if it was all the pulling / saving of the girls falling on the ice yesterday or the girls riding on our shoulders last night but her back is killing her. You know it’s hurting when she asks that I run down to the store to pick up some aspirin.

Feeling better Sheri wanted to take the girls out to Druga’s. Now, we don’t allow the girls to wear any makeup other than some lip gloss but the girls wanted to have some play makeup. Anyhow……the girls came back with an assortment of Eyeshadow, Lip gloss and some brushes. Earlier in the day when I took Nata out we found a doll store with handmade items. I was able to deflect buying any items as I kept telling Nata that we would need Sanija to be here to tell us if the handmade clothes would fit her American Girl dolls.  I underestimated Nata and her perseverance because when they returned they has spent a small fortune on dolls clothes. Keep in mind that Nata does not own a full size American Doll yet she has several new outfits for her.  Hmmmm……I think mommy is a bigger push over than daddy is – don’t you think?

Once home, Sanija took right up again with her studies. She needed to type and upload three of her travel journal pages to google documents to have her teacher review them for the week.

A couple of hours have passed and the littlest one though we should go to Lido for Dinner. It’s about a 15 minute walk (10 minutes if it was only two adult). But there are poles to swing around, bushes to jump over and of course, hide and seek along the way.

As both mommy and daddy were/are very tired that must mean that everybody must go to sleep early. Now, I would like to say that our two precious girls love us and want to make us happy by jumping in bed but…I think giving the a black light flash light could have helped us in our endeavors.

On a side note: I really think taking Nata out by myself helped us in our bonding. I think this was because “mommy” wasn’t there for her to fall back on. We really had a lot of fun together.

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