Generational Divide

Every mother hopes her daughter will do her one better, and these are some of the things in which my mother outdid her mother:

1) She attended and graduated from college
2) She held down paying jobs at various times.
3) She personally revived our church's youth group with cookies, Kool-Aid, organization, and direction.
4) She and my father owned their own home.
5) She stayed on good terms with her relatives her whole life.