She’s coming back.

I know you want to know how Alice’s first day went.

If you follow the Facebook page, you know she came equipped with a bag of crafts.

So that was good.

She folded laundry.

That was good.

While she was doing that, I made some banana bread.

Alice said to me, You know, I love to bake. I could do that for you.

That was good, too.

A few minutes before I left to take Number 3 and 4 to swim practice, Number 7 fell off her stool in the kitchen.

She had a mouth full of apple.

Alice doesn’t know us very well.

She had a little bit of a panic attack.

Number 7 was screaming bloody murder.

She wasn’t really hurt. She was more pissed.

But Alice was worried.

Afraid that Number 7 had bitten her tongue off in the fall, Alice was trying to get her to spit out the apple so she could look inside her mouth.

Number 7 is like Number 4.

On steroids.

There was no way in hell she was spitting out that apple.

Alice will learn.

So, happy that the first spill happened while I was still in the house, and with Number 7 recovered and back on her stool, I left for practice.

I got home at 5:50 pm.

Numbers 5, 6, and 7 were all seated at the table playing with Play-Doh.

None of it was smashed into the rug.

My husband had gotten home a few minutes before me.

He walked into the playroom, and I asked him if he had already met Alice.

Yes, he said.

I came upstairs because I didn’t hear anything. Alice had them all sitting at the table playing.

And they were silent. And cooperating.

I think he was in shock.

So I approved…

My husband approved.

But I wasn’t sure what the kids thought.

I found out during dinner when Number 5 said to me,

Mommy, why is Alice so Spanishy?

(She’s Italian).

I told her that Alice wasn’t born in this country.

I wasn’t sure if being Spanishy was good or bad.

But then Number 5 said,

Mommy, Alice was fun.

Phew.

I’m glad you had fun, I told her.

But Mommy? Number 5 continued.

She’s not as pretty as you.

You’re really pretty.

Yep.

All in all,

I’d say the first day with Alice was a pretty big success.

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