It was a wild time trying to settle in. Honestly, it was hard even to know where to begin. It was kind of like we were wadding around in the dark. At least we had each other. We had been home for almost a whole week now. The twins, for the first time last night, actually managed to sleep in their beds, and I was so incredibly proud of them for that... I didn’t even have to lay with them to get them to fall asleep first. It was a huge step for us, it may not seem like it to others, but it was. I think it was finally starting to sink in for them that this was it. I wasn’t going anywhere. This was home for them. We were really a family now. It had been the most challenging year of our lives, and we were all a little worse for wear now than we were before. We had gained so much, but we had los
