Saturday night at a church activity after one such inquiry, my friend, her mom and my mom were talking about . . . well, me. My friend told my mother, “I don’t know how she does all that she does!”

My mother was like “… Really?” (Remember, these lovely women live 2000 miles away.)

When my mother related the story to me, I told my mom, “Oh, she sees how much I write. She doesn’t see what my house looks like!”

(A side note: according to a survey of 7000 moms by AOL’s Platform-A and OMD, the average mom fits the equivalent of 27 hours of activities into a 16-hour day. Only 1.4 of those hours are “personal time,” of course. The one thing I question about this study: who gets eight hours of sleep?!)