Nullum Gratuitum Prandium

Alyssa, my seven-year-old know-it-all told me today,"Mom, I really don't have any more use for you. Except for your pumpkin cheesecake."

Right now this is the highest compliment she could have given me and a very strange show of gratitude. She might change her mind in about eleven years when she asks for the car keys and hands me her university tuition bill. Then we will see how useless I am.