a little bit of the happy life

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My house is super chaotic right now. Like, I have my sweet (newly 1 year old) Bubby, Miss Priss and a two sisters are living with us now (10 and 13). When I got the call from DHS to take two more kids I'll be honest, I kind of freaked out a bit on the inside. But I told them, "Sure, give me 30 minutes to get home." And by 30 minutes to get home, that meant 30 minutes to do a quick cleaning sweep through my house!
I ended up picking up the girls in town, for what was supposed to be only a 3 day stay. Well...that was four weeks ago yesterday and my girls are still here. And we are having a blast. It is a bit crazy getting four kids ready (or monitoring) for school and daycare every morning and then making four stops in two different towns to get them all dropped off on time. And the showering schedule is a bit insane (Thank God for 2.5 bathrooms!). These girls, and Miss Priss are CONSTANTLY hungry and I catch them in my kitchen at midnight more often than I'd like to admit.
More than the crazy though, these girls are so loving. They want nothing more than to cuddle up on the couch, all 5 of us, and watch a movie together as a "family". Little outings, like taking them skating on Friday nights and actually staying instead of just dropping them off, seems like a huge deal to them. And if you get them ice cream afterwards, well, you are just the best thing since sliced bread.
I say all of the time how weird it was going from a single 23 year old to a 24 year old with a baby and a  10 year old. Well, it just keeps getting weirder that I am now a family of 5, but I wouldn't change a bit of it! Love these babies like they were mine. Prayers appreciated for the girls parents and for me and my babies when we go back to court in April to pursue adoption!