She withstood snakes, jokes and lots of eating out.

I can't believe that it has been 8 weeks since Jeanie moved into our house.  Her Occupational Therapy rotation was over on Friday.  We had a great time with Jeanie, her boyfriend on his visits here, her brother, Chris, and her parents.

Jeanie fit in with all the teasing here.  She sat on the sofa with Kaitlin and Marisa many a night laughing at Youtube videos, she joined with them singing the songs they love, she sent an occasional poem and she even put up with Carl when he put a snake in her bed.*

Jeanie got herself up everyday and never missed a day of work.  She ate what we did and took care of herself when I said that we were on our own, but most important to me she always let me know where she was.  It was a joy to have her.

One of the unexpected things that we got from Jeanie was given to Kaitlin.  We have always had an open home- folks have stayed with us from a few days to a few months.  The last girl we had live with us for a summer did not leave on good terms with us and especially Kaitlin.  Kaitlin was wounded greatly.  I did not know that Kaitlin was afraid that the same thing would happen with Jeanie.  What a blessing that it did not!

We are all ready for our next guest!

*Snake in the bed story-  We live out in the country.  One afternoon there was a large snake near our road.  It was hissing at all the cars that went by.  Yuck!  Kaitlin and I saw it as we headed out for the afternoon.  We told everyone at supper that night at the Restaurant.  All the girls were generally creeped out by the snake.  Carl met us for supper that night.  We were all in different cars so we got home at different times.  Carl got home first.  Jeanie was the first one to find a rubber snake in her bed and she didn't even scream that loud.  The three girls then went to each of their beds to see if Carl had put a snake in all their beds- they weren't disappointed- he did.