No pressure . ..

It was lovely to talk with all the family yesterday. I do feel incredibly honoured to be the mother of three intelligent, humorous and mostly happy adults; and honorary additional parent to Stacey and Tim. Thanks for your kind words and thoughtful gift. Good to know you all played your appropriate parts.

It does appear that Good Mother is really a cross cultural - there are good/great (aka unobtainable) mother figures in Christianity, Roman gods, Tibetan, Cao Dai (that amazing temple I went to in Vietnam) and Jungian psychology