The holidays ended and everything sped up. We got home on Sunday afternoon and spent the evening unpacking, doing laundry, packing lunches, preparing for the week ahead. Nighttime crept up on us: we were busy doing all the things that needed to be done and had to put it all down in order to get to sleep in time to wake up for school and work the next day. On Monday, aside from the regular busy-ness of school drop-offs and pick-ups and prepping dinner and packing lunches, I spent the day crawl...