You may think your eyes are deceiving you next week when you see Sarah Palin pop up on the Fox News Channel after parting with the network just five months ago.

However, your eyes will be working quite fine.

USA Today reports that the former Republican vice presidential candidate is returning to Fox News as a contributor, a role she previously held there from January 2010 to January 2013. She will make her first appearance on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning. In addition to Fox News Channel, she will also be contributing to the Fox Business Network.

On Thursday, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes issued a statement saying, “I’ve had several conversations with Governor Palin in the past few weeks about her rejoining FOX News as a contributor. I have great confidence in her and am pleased that she will once again add her commentary to our programming. I hope she continues to speak her mind.”

The former Alaska governor revealed that she is also looking forward to becoming a contributor once again.

“The power of FOX News is unparalleled,” Palin said in a statement. “The role of FOX News in the important debates in our world is indispensable. I am pleased and proud to be rejoining Roger Ailes and the great people at FOX.”

When Palin left in January she said she it was of her own volition telling the conservative website Brietbart that she wanted to broaden the views of the Republican Party. “We can’t just preach to the choir; the message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience,” she explained. In February, however, Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen wrote in a Politico article that Palin was taken off Fox News because the network wanted “to purge the controversial political creatures they created” and repair the Republican Party that was “damaged badly in 2012 by loud, partisan voices that stoked the base — but that scared the hell out of many voters.”

In 2011, Ailes said he originally gave Palin the job as contributor “because she was hot and got ratings.” But, according to a former Fox News employee who was fired after anonymously blogging on Gawker about what it was like to work there, Palin’s likability was short-lived. Joe Muto told The Daily Beast after Palin was hired she didn’t give the job a lot of effort so the network made it easier for her by building a studio in her Alaskan house “so all she had to do was slap on some makeup and go sit in front of the camera.” But Muto said even that didn’t help, as Palin would still be late and unprepared on the topic that would be discussed on the air.

Despite these claims, Palin will be back at the network and this is making Fox News “On the Record” host Greta Van Susteren very happy.

“I am delighted to have her back at Fox,” Susteren told Politico in an email. “She has a big impact (check out the number of Facebook followers! 3.5 million!) and should be part of the national debate.”

Additionally she said that Palin’s return “is free promo for Fox since it will drive her TV critics crazy! They are obsessed with her!”

Since Palin left Fox, she has been lending support to Republican candidates and criticizing the actions of President Obama such as using the Newton tragedy to help advocate for stricter gun control.

On a more personal issue, Palin recently attacked Bill Maher on Twitter after outspoken conservative Ron Futrello said the TV host called Palin’s 5-year-old son Trig, who has Down syndrome, “retarded” during a performance at the Palms Pearl in Las Vegas this past Saturday.

On Wednesday Palin responded by tweeting, “Hey bully, on behalf of all kids whom you hatefully mock in order to make yourself feel big, I hope one flattens your lily white wimpy a#*.”

She even suggested an in-person meeting to address the issue with her tweet, “I’m in your neck of the woods this weekend, little Bill. Care to meet so I can tell you how I really feel?”

Fans and critics of Palin will surely be glued to their televisions Monday morning for her imminent return.