The concerning thing is, she's running on barely any sleep. She's fueled her morning with Monster. The world and his wife knows when you're anxious an energy drink really doesn't help that. She's displayed manic symptoms all morning, that won't last all day she will crash, and hard. So by the time the kids are home from school shes going to be on what ever comedown shes on, mentally crashing and shell be exhaused and irritable. We all know first hand how hard it is to parent when you're exhausted and irritated, the only difference is we have our children in our care consistently they're not being phased back in after a year away. She can't afford to be irritable this early. She can't be woosaing her way through her second night of being a mother for the first time in a year. She needs to give those kids what they need, kids are intuitive and a new environment they've been away from for so long that doesn't feel like home will make them seek reassurance and she should be catering to every need. In a few weeks she can pull back and become firmer but she can't be Miss Trunchball from day 1. Meet their needs and then some, let them over step a boundary or two for a few weeks allow them to settle. Spoil them comfort them, and then draw a line then reintroduce boundaries. God only knows they deserve to feel special and be spoilt rotten for a week.