If you leave them you will be punished. They are oh-so-happy to see you return, but sometime in the next 24 hours your punishment will be meted out. For the dogs it might be along the lines of puking on the carpet or some other equally gross event. For Emma it was being clingy, weepy and hysterical. This is after being an angel for Daddy while I was gone.
In truth I think she's teething again, she's had a runny nose for two days and was crying real tears with her weeping jags. She keeps poking a finger in her mouth and trying to bite everything. But why did she maintain her composure for her dad all that time and then lay it all on me? Huh? Why is that? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?