Words of Wisdom:

NO SLEEP
I was sleep-deprived for several years; uh, a new piece of equipment came to our house -- the VCR; and we used the swing, which we called the neglect-o-matic. We would wind up the two swings and put them in it, and I'd sort of stare at them going "NYE, NYE, NYE, NYE."

MAKING ME MAD
What can my kids do that really, really annoys me? They don't answer me. I say something, and it falls on deaf ears. They don't hear me. They're reading, or they're watching TV, or their door is closed, or they're standing right in front of me. They show no sign of having heard what I just said. That sends me into an absolute foaming fury.

MOM'S MOMENT
Is there some tender moment when you look at your kids and they don't see you? And uh, for me in what it is invariably is seeing the backs of their necks. (Laughs). I can't describe that. I can't understand it really. I certainly can't explain, uh, why that is so. But when I see the backs of their necks, holding their heads up, there's, there's just something that, I don't know, makes me want to leap and grab them and protect them from the world. I don't know what it is!