This is our final day with the last of the Christmas visitor children.......

Back home, the Christmas Tree is burning bright for one last time......

And life goes on as usual for the cats. Here, Tallulah gets a good stretch after yet another nap....

But for the humans, we are holding on to our few last lingering minutes with the children....

We'll miss our beautiful Binks and Winston looks like he would like to stow away in her luggage....

Pretty soon it's time for last-minute hugs...........

And tearful goodbyes..........

And then it's back to "home as we know it" in the empty nest era of our lives......It is so hard to let go of the children, but we are proud that they have established happy adult lives of their own.