Dinner out, the moon and the stars

We had dinner with a couple recently (not Belgian, American, nor do they live here) and the woman commented she would be so glad when her daughter left home. Apparently their relationship wasn't as she expected it to be (wonder why!). This was so foreign (no pun intended) to me and I couldn't imagine anyone saying something like that.

I told her that we'd be perfectly happy if our children still lived at home. She thought I was crazy and then went on to tell about leaving Saturday to go to Egypt, or somewhere.

Too bad the daughter of our dinner partners didn't have a mother like mine. My mother adored me. She thought I hung the moon and the stars, but of course, I couldn't have . . .

because MY children did.