The Aftermath

I got a full house again. Wow.

It was a very sweet reunion, with a tad of confusion thrown in.

I went to pick up the boys at the airport at midnight yesterday (I got a little emotional seeing Luke at the baggage claim - he grew up a little even we were just apart for 2 weeks - and when he came out he gave me a big fat kiss on my lips.) We got home around 1:30am. Of course Luke was all hyper because he slept the whole way from Tokyo to Singapore, and we all sat at the table for a late night/early morning snack because of that late night hunger pang. After refueling we still had to give Luke a bath and unpack.

All went pretty smoothly and I finally hit the pillow at 3:30am. 4am Luke barged into our room crying, claiming that he was scared (I don't even remember of what). Matt was deep in La La Land (in fact he sat up and responded, but I swear he was sleep talking because he looked absolutely dazed) so who's left to take care of our little precious? Luke never went back to sleep because he said he had already slept on the plane. Great. I stayed in his room and fazed in and out until 5:30am, Madison woke up for the nasty habit of feeding at the crack on dawn that she recently acquired. (She was sleeping 12 hours stretch from 8 to 8 before.) I watched the sun rise, and by 8am, I was absolutely spent. (Matt tried to talk to me when he was having breakfast, but I fell asleep in the middle of listening, standing up.) I took a nap from 9 to 11 when Madison was napping and our helper Rachel played with Luke (thank God for Rachel!!). I woke up really confused about where I was and why all of a sudden my apartment was so noisy. (I got two weeks of peace and quiet, remember?)

The energizer bunny named Luke finally crashed at 1:30pm in the afternoon. He slept till 4:30 and that gave me some more time to recover.

After he woke, I took him to the pool while Matt played with Madison. The rest of the afternoon went calmly and smoothly. Then Matt ate his dinner with his eyelids half closed and crashed shortly afterwards.

I nursed Madison while Luke picked up his toys and brushed his teeth. After I put Madison down it was story time for Luke, though he could barely keep his eyes open towards the end of the story. Everybody was down by 7:30pm and peace once again descended upon my life.

So day 1 is down. Tomorrow I plan to send(shove) Luke to school and hopefully my morning will be taken care of.