...or if she was eaten by a bear in the dead of summer, or a swarm of bees attacked her at the mini-mart, or six muscle-bound robbers took her hostage on a plane to Mexico, or aliens abducted her to become the mother to their race...
Wow! She's good! She probably thought of all those great ways to lay guilt on you while she was walking to school every day, in blizzards with no shoes, seven-miles, up-hill BOTH WAYS!!!
I'm sorry for being a "smart-a" (as my difficult child 1 says), but I still think you did a great job. Don't let ANYONE lay guilt on you...it's yours to take or not. You need to get good at "not"!
Beth
