A Visit's Outcome

When you have waited and waited to see people you love arrive at your home for a visit, you feel as if you'll pop when you get to wrap your arms around them and say, "I'm so happy you're here!!!"

There is the anticipation of what will be moments filled with new sites and introductions. But, there are the even better moments of re-connecting, catching-up, making the ties that bind even stronger and thicker. And, the integration of new spirits to the group who make it even more complex, fascinating, and loving.

Then you realize a part of a visit that can be most unexpectedly appealing is the mundane moments...like seeing someone you love at your kitchen sink cleaning up and making sure that things run smoothly. Feeling so comfortable in your space that they pitch right in and make themselves at home...

A brief visit where you have the opportunity to capture more images that stay as bright flickers of memories...of being close and being in love...and that distance, time, geography don't change that. But, oh how wonderful to stand close and feel them next to your skin. Within easy reach of a hug and a kiss.

With lots of opportunity nestled in for quiet moments...a chance to bond a bit. Learn new roles such as, "Grand Pa," or "Great Aunt"...

And, most particularly, the great joys of being a first time Grand Mother...or as I call her, Grammy LAMmy...it seems to fit as we've always called her LAM...because her initials really do say it all...Linda is a lamb.

Play time carved out...even the guys got in the act and enjoyed Livy Time! And, being so proud of my wild Highlanders who were as gentle as could be with such a little girl with flying fists and grabby fingers....fingers that clutched a handful of Scottie beard quite tightly...but only for the briefest of moments. Aroo!

Time to sit, relax, enjoy a June afternoon, catch up...say what's what. Actually nothing so extraordinary. Or perhaps it is extraordinary in its ordinariness..because it was with all of us together.

But mostly, it was about huge amounts of moments spent this way...in hysterics over the things that only a brother and sister can find so flippin' funny. While everyone else around smiles and shakes their heads saying, "I don't get it, but okay..."

And, at its conclusion, when it's all too quickly time to say, "Drive safe and I'll see you soon, okay? I loved having you here. Please, please come again," you have memories like this to keep the time in between manageable. When you're really missing everyone, you can sit and recall those moments shared. To remember that it's all about La Familia and the small bits that build a lifetime.

I had a wonderful time. In its everyday, mundane magick...it was, well, everything. I love my life. I wish you moments when you feel the very same.

Namaste' Till Next Time,
Holly aka (from l to r,) New Guy, aka Aunt Hol, aka Great Aunt Holly, aka Sister, aka Sweet Pea