3 weeks full

For 3 weeks I've had guests in my home.  First came Kenlei.  She's kinda quiet when not accompanied by other children, but she tagged along, visited and played about my world for a couple of days before she was joined by Olivia.  Then she and Liv played and helped until Kenlei's mom got her in the wee hours of Monday. . . . . . . .  Liv is noisy and bouncy and always at the top of my world.  I used to say she was high maintenance, but not so much now.  She's just very visible and hearable.  She's high energy, intelligent and likes to be where her gramma is.  She likes to sit on me and work with me and play with me.  She likes me to show her things and teach her things and be in her day.  For a week and a day before my niece and her grandson came, she blessed my home with her happy.  She got to play with Dante for a little over a day before she had to go home.  I love just about all parts of having her in my world. . . . . . . . . . . .  And then there was Cathy and Dante.  We walked and talked (I really do talk a lot) and exercised and drove and cooked and just about everything else.  Today they got in her shiny blue car and drove away, leaving my house ghostly quiet and my heart feeling a little bit empty.  It's just been so full that it will take some getting used to. . . . . . . . . . We did do a lot, but not everything I had hoped to do.  Perhaps if I didn't 'talk' quite so much we could have done more, but there it goes.  It was a nice week with moments of definite sweetness.  It left me with the hope that I didn't wear her out verbally or physically too much.  It left me with the desire to set my world in order.  It left me determined to create more and prepare more and grow as a person.  And it left me hungry for the next opportunity to share my life and my space with those I love.  I pray that you are blessed and surrounded with those you love and those who love you.