ha - that would certainly be a wrench coming from one's own mother!

for me the hardest (so far?) was hearing it from my best friend's mother - she's an M.Ed prof at a very well-respected university - several of her students teach at my kid's school, one of them in her actual class. although... now i actually wish i'd had that conversation with her about 18 months sooner - might have saved us 30K.

Every Sunday it brooded and lay on the floor. Inconveniently close to the drawing-room door.