I am currently the only crazy person awake in the house but it won’t last for long. Soon I’ll have Tiny (2) and Kiddo (9) wide awake and literally climbing me. The teen (16) will sleep in because she’s a teen and potentially to avoid some of the chaos of the littler girls.
But eventually it will be a full house of wide awake kids and it will be rowdy and tumultuous. I’ll get hugged and sat on a lot by the younger girls. I’ll (potentially justifiably, eh hem) get picked on for my cooking by our teen. I’ll be saying “Leave [name] alone!” a lot. We have three kids who don’t know what an inside voice is, one of whom just got a gift of toy handcuffs so if you forget to watch for them you’re likely to get handcuffed to the furniture in a hot second. We also have a 10 year old dog with spring fever who will be chasing her tail and romping through the house like she’s 2. Plus we have 5 cats, each of whom is insane in their own special way, and one of whom is intent on making me lose my mind by refusing to obey our rules about cats on counters and tables, and three of whom want to go outside and back inside roughly 100 times per day. There will be sneak nerf gun attacks by Kiddo, and Tiny will beg to watch TV and trash the play room, and the teen will complain that our wifi just went down again.
And I will love the hell out of every glorious loud minute. I apparently have a thing for chaos.
It’s all sort of temporary. Kiddo only spends weekends with us because she really lives with her mom, and our teen is still in the process of transitioning to our house so she’s only spending weekends here still as well. I’ll milk it for all it’s worth. Monday will come around too soon and be far too quiet with just Tiny in the house.
Fingers crossed, we will soon have a full-time teenager though! The goal is to have her move in here so that she can start school in the new district right after spring break. The transition has not been without its bumps and I expect plenty more along the way, but we absolutely adore this kid and are thrilled to bits that she wants to live with us.
There’s so much to do between now and when she moves in. It’s all a bit overwhelming, and not made any easier by the fact that her caseworker is leaving the county and a new caseworker is taking over, so we have to start all over building a rapport with the new one. The rumor is that she is very good, so I’m thrilled with that, it’s just that it’s one more thing to transition during an already chaotic time. We will get through it though. And on the other side? Two full-time kids will live here. And my heart will be even fuller.
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