Me: "Margot, I'm going to Washington, DC early tomorrow morning, so I may not see you before you go to school - but I'm just going for the day, so I'll be back before you go to bed."
Margot: "Oh, Mommy, I'm going to miss you so much!!"
Me: "I'll miss you, too - "
Margot: "I'm going to miss you as much as a baby piglet would miss its mother, if the mother had a lot of other piglets and wasn't paying very much attention to that piglet. Because baby pigs really love their mothers, you know? And if they don't get a lot of attention from their mothers, they really, really miss them. I'm going to miss you that much, Mom - I really am."
Note to self: plan one-on-one activity with Margot ASAP.