"Oh, I realize that," she said. "I'm just saying, sometimes people look for meanings that aren't there. Which I'm sure you already know."

"Sometimes they pit my babies against each other," she said, sighing melodramatically. "Those are usually the years I get dressed up and go to the ceremony, to congratulate whoever won and console the ones who lost. Which rarely seems to be Modern Family, they of the multiple win multiple years in a row." She laughed self-consciously. "I'm doing it again, aren't I? Word vomit."