Are you kidding? I'll take any excuse to talk about the two of them.

[ calling herself their parent may feel disrespectful to miranda and jenna would never dream of doing it, but the feeling is clear even if she won't call things what they are. ]

Jeremy's sixteen and oh my god, thankfully exiting his surly phase. Elena's seventeen-- eighteen soon, though. [ she missed that birthday; at home and here, but she shoves that thought down. ] And she's probably more mature than I'll ever be, already-- she's like her mom.