CelticCowboy you are so fortunate having a loving wife and son and the three of you look so happy and so smartly dressed in the photo you posted. Your mother ought to be really proud that you have in the past put your life on the line working in law enforcement and that currently you are doing something which allows you more time to devote to your lovely family and to give that family better security. Thats far more precious than living in a big house.
Sathor I can't really comprehend what your mother is getting at. Reading her e-mail she comes over to me as confused but then I've never met the lady so it would be unkind for me to form such a judgement.