They did it! Last night Noah slept all night without waking once (even despite going to be at 7pm) and woke up at 6am! And Addison only woke for one bottle at 3am.

I had so much recuperative sleep I had no idea what to do with myself come 6am and I did the unthinkable and offered to let my husband sleep in (he looked like a zombie - apparently he can't handle uninterrupted sleep? haha) which he took me up on for a grand 45 minutes.

This only means one thing. It is time to get down to business. There are three orders of business that MUST be dealt with now that we are all back on a normal sleep schedule:

1) Time to get out the breastpump and build a supply and get that baby off formula
2) Put up the Christmas decorations
3) Start homeschooling again

Our vacation is officially over! Tonight' Tony's 3 kids come home from a very long (the longest in their life, in fact) adoption-related absence. They get to meet baby Addy and tomorrow they go back to school after a very rough month for them full of ridiculous numbers of absences and even more ridiculous numbers of unmet homework assignments. We are all happy to get back to Life As Usual and get back on track. There is a certain amount of calm and happiness in routine and predictability: school (home and away), homework, making baby food, giving bottles, changing diapers, preparing dinner, cleaning messes. These aren't "fun" things but they are the foundation of our life and where our sense of security and reliability and predictability come from. Bring It On, I say.