Complete...

At approx. 9:50 PM tonight my house became complete again. As my children pulled up with their grand parents I was waiting outside eager as ever to hug, kiss, and hold my babies again. Even if half of them (or all of them) aren't really babies anymore!

As I weave in between children playing with long lines of cars or one that has quickly resumed his position attached to my hip I put their clean laundry away out of their suit cases and get them changed into their pjs. They're noise is welcome. I've missed it. As soon as Matt walked in the door and I joined them after carrying bags of clothes he smiles and asks for my keys. How can I say no? Caleb asked to play a video game... to which I reply that we can do it in the morning... tonight we are a family again and he has all kinds of toys to play with. Laura wanted to know where her room was because her dresser was different.

At this moment, Laura and Caleb are going between playing with those long lines of cars to playing with the kitten they didn't know existed just 5 minutes before. Matthew is tired, after all they were up at 5 AM this morning and it's now almost 11 PM. But they are as eager to see their step dad as their step dad is to see them. Thus I keep them out of bed. Matt is about to fall asleep on the couch until he gets home though... he only has another 30 minutes to go.

I was extremely happy to see that Matt was in underwear :). Always a good thing! He's gotten so big... but that might be my eyes playing tricks on me. I might have to weigh him to find out! Caleb is still talking clear and for the moment the attitude we had been fighting with all winter is gone. Laura is being little miss know it all. She's very informative... but for the moment none of them are sharing stories of Colorado. The only tid bit I got was going to a water park. They all look to be at least a foot bigger... but yeah, I think it's just because I haven't seen them.

My heart is complete... again. There's always a big hole in my heart when they are gone and this time was no exception. Even if I was busy working... my mind often wondered to my children... now it doesn't have to wonder very far! So, I'm back to spend some time with the children before I ship them off to bed to sleep before spending a morning/afternoon together before I go to work. *sigh* I wish I was off. I've got time to catch up on. But I have Friday/Saturday off and we will do something as a family.