She's Back

We have a new addition to the household increasing the frenetic energy load already high from summer nothing-to-dos and schedules out-of-whack due to visiting relatives.
Soon everyone will get used to the change and things will get back to normal (or what we call normal for us).

"Lucky" is an 11-year-old girl who lived with Ana for a while as a crisis placement a few years ago. She had been placed with a relative a few hours from here. When they could no longer care for her, the placement worker dug into the file and found that she had lived with Ana and called to see if we could take her as a long term placement because they really wanted her with someone she knew (pretty unusual for a PW to go to that trouble).

So far everyone is acting like they are at summer camp hyper and wild, playing pranks and one-upping. Sparky is being particularly crazy and out of control. Squeaker went to school in a miffy snit because I made her change out of Lucky's clothes. The girls are sharing a room and are excited about sharing clothes even though they are 4 sizes in difference.

After a morning which involved allowing dogs on furniture, running up and down the stairs, and throwing underwear around, the five kids who are not in school have finally settled down to watch Veggie Tales so there is relative calm right now.

Good enough for me.