Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
I guess I was a mom so late in life my daughter was the greatest thing since...
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army but I never called them...
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
