Had to smile when I read this.

Reminded me of my parents when I was much younger

" So you finally decided to come home, did you?"   :-)

This also answers more of the question of why management was here a few weeks ago. I mean, you can do a conference call from anywhere in the world, so there had to be more to why they physically were here. This is part of the why (but I suspect not all)!

IMO, of course