My sentiments exactly. (Perhaps you should mention who sent in this piece, Clara -- ahem ahem...)

My appologies anonny! Yes you did send this in. Thank you so much. And yes I'm afraid it even expresses some of the innermost sentiments of this ahem-ahem mother: Perhaps I'm not the mom I'd like to be.

No mom is the mom she'd like to be!!

I'm very pleased to see my poem receiving some empathetic feedback here. Best wishes, Rory

I am thrilled to hear from you Rory. Yeah, there are even some signs of intelligent life among the raisers of two-foot scruffs!

There's definitely intelligent life among mothers of scruffs. Hopefully some of it will rub off on the scruffs themselves!!! That's the only hope for the *bad boys*.