Life is returning to normal around here. My house is clean. Laundry is caught up. School is caught up. There isn't this feeling of doom or lateness hanging over everything. I make my coffee in the morning, Rory goes down for a nap without fussing, she's getting back to into our routine.

I realized that while I have taken roughly 500 pictures of Rory per month since her birth, I haven't taken any this month. That's how much September sucked. I spent this morning remedying that. Here is the latest in Rory cuteness. She looks a lot more like Ryan than like me these days. Until she glares.