So, bringing a new baby home to a house with no nursery and a neurotic cat is a recipe for chaos of Miltonian proportions. We had bought a crib and toybox back at the start of the China adoption process...but that was a process about adopting a 12-month-old baby, who might perchance feel like sleeping in a crib. Newborn babies have no interest in cribs, so he needs things like a bassinette, apparently. Or he can just stick with his car seat. Also, that nesting thing? Where you feel the need to make the house perfect for a baby before the baby comes? It seems to be happening to me, but when you've got the baby already in the house, it complicates things.

Anyway, Mike looked after the little guy on his own last night so I could stay up and get the nursery painted and redecorated. This after a day of shopping and furniture assembly. Since we hope we'll be adding a girl to the mix in a couple of years, I went with something relatively ungendered. Now that it's done I can feel the insanity ebbing at last...it's nice not having the changing table in the living room!