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Aug. 11th, 2009 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciirceeSo Skyla is doing better now that her mom moved out. This is awesome!
Brittney just moved in with us for...pretty much the foreseeable future. This is very odd. I knew she and her dad fought a lot but I didn't know it was so bad. Today she ran away from home and tried to hitchhike thirty miles to her mom's place. She refused to go to her dad's. Her mom can't take her (for some reason) and so the Sheriff brought her to us.
Tomorrow I get to talk to her mom and figure stuff out but there is an excellent chance that we'll have her for the entire school year. There is also a good chance that we will have her for the next three years after that and into her post-high school/university years.
Sunday night Ed and I rounded up the kids, Ashley and Brittney and headed out for (free!) custard. I had zero inkling that things were this bad and if you had told me that I would end up with 'lawful custody' of Brit I would never have believed it. Finances are in a pinch but...well, Ed and I like kids. We both think teenagers are fun. We'll manage.
In other news: Faith's hamster is really a cat. He's nearly two and he still likes to get out of his cage. The six cats we still have like to surround him when this happens. And play with him. He lives on still. Sure, he's a little goofy in his old age, but he is hale and hearty after some seven or eight go-rounds with the cats. That is one ballsy hamster, I tell you.
ETA: HOLY CRAP. I suddenly have a metric fuckton of e-mail from LJ. Methinks it has been stopping my mail. I will get back to people as I can. Way to go, LJ! Like I didn't feel behind before!
ETA I JUST REMEMBERED: Arashi/EXTREME FOOD OTP. I love![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flange5 a lot.
Brittney just moved in with us for...pretty much the foreseeable future. This is very odd. I knew she and her dad fought a lot but I didn't know it was so bad. Today she ran away from home and tried to hitchhike thirty miles to her mom's place. She refused to go to her dad's. Her mom can't take her (for some reason) and so the Sheriff brought her to us.
Tomorrow I get to talk to her mom and figure stuff out but there is an excellent chance that we'll have her for the entire school year. There is also a good chance that we will have her for the next three years after that and into her post-high school/university years.
Sunday night Ed and I rounded up the kids, Ashley and Brittney and headed out for (free!) custard. I had zero inkling that things were this bad and if you had told me that I would end up with 'lawful custody' of Brit I would never have believed it. Finances are in a pinch but...well, Ed and I like kids. We both think teenagers are fun. We'll manage.
In other news: Faith's hamster is really a cat. He's nearly two and he still likes to get out of his cage. The six cats we still have like to surround him when this happens. And play with him. He lives on still. Sure, he's a little goofy in his old age, but he is hale and hearty after some seven or eight go-rounds with the cats. That is one ballsy hamster, I tell you.
ETA: HOLY CRAP. I suddenly have a metric fuckton of e-mail from LJ. Methinks it has been stopping my mail. I will get back to people as I can. Way to go, LJ! Like I didn't feel behind before!
ETA I JUST REMEMBERED: Arashi/EXTREME FOOD OTP. I love
flange5 a lot.