Honestly it had been mostly sarcasm, not that she would have objected to living out the new nuclear family scenario, but she was pretty sure she'd get bored with it before long, because that kind of normal started to grate after a while.

"Disappointment's kind of the way the world works." She shrugged, "Just as long as you can find what makes you happy in between, evens things out a little." A nod, "And alive, yeah, we'll call that a bonus, for now. Pretty sure it should just be the baseline, though."