Never having had a maternal influence, I don't always deal well with other people's mothers. On the one hand, it's great to have a sweet nurturing person there to take care of you and make sure that everything's as it should be. However, the controlling aspect gets old quickly. The upshot to the loveliness of having some one cook and clean is that they then reorganize everything, get upset when you don't eat what they term "enough", and just generally try to alter your well established habits. My bathroom glistened this morning, but I had to search high and low for all of the various products necessary to assembling myself.

I've taken care of myself for a long time learned a while back to be self-sufficient and independent. As awesome as Lara's mom is, I would go crazy having some one trying to exert that kind of control over my life. That parent-child relationship seems like such an odd dynamic to me. I wonder if my lack of experience with any sort of conventional parenting is what makes me iffy on the idea of having children of my own. I also wonder if my parents feel and regret their lack of influence on their children.