What an amazing week it has been...

Our drama still isn't over, but things are getting there...

I have my Katie! I have actually had her with me for 2 weeks already. Sometimes things just happen that are AMAZING and GOOD! It has been such a joy to have her home where she belongs. I have a lot of work to do with her to get her emotionally stable again, to get her caught up with school, and adjust to the new situation living with me and not her Dad.

It is going to be a long road of adjustment for her. Going from a 6 figure income with her Dad to my much lower income so there aren't all the "extras" like Starbucks every day before school, shopping at Aeropostle or Hollisters, getting new $80 shoes every 3 months... She knows that I can't afford all that. But even though she knows, it is a lot of adjustment to make.

And then the fights...

I want to pull my hair out some times... Katie pushes Elizabeth's buttons, Elizabeth pushes Katie's buttons, they pick on eachother, get eachother screaming or whining, and it drives me NUTZ! Both girls are having to readjust the positions they have with Mom. Elizabeth has had my attention almost exclusivly~ even with the birth of Allen, she still had a lot of attention since I could hold him and do stuff with her still.

With Katie home, it is different for Elizabeth. There is this other big kid fighting for my attention too. And since for Katie, the only way she has really had attention is from misbehaving, guess what we get a LOT of? I am really working at the "catching her being good" stuff and rewarding positive behavior in ways that Katie will respond too. It is going to take time...

Well right now we have to get to the Parade... Elizabeth is walking with her Girl Scout Troop... then off to lunch with a friend and the girls and then home to get some more packing done.