In Our Words Canadians Reading Together

One day when Jill went over to see Marilyn and Brian, they announce their plans to travel he world; it was something they always wanted to do. Jill felt sad, Marilyn and Brian said they would keep in touch and, send postcards from every place they stopped. Jill wondered why they would stop sending the postcards, but could never figure it out.

One day while Jill was at home watching TV, the phone rang, Jill answered it, to her surprise, it was her mother. She said that she was coming to visit. Jill was so happy she cried. She told her father, sisters and brother “mom’s coming to visit, let’s go to meet her at the bus stop!” Jill and her sisters went to meet their mother. The bus came in but mom wasn’t there. They waited for the next bus, she still wasn’t there.

Jill felt broken hearted again, she cried all night. As she prayed she said dear God how come my mom didn’t come? Did she get hurt or does she really not care about me? She cried herself to sleep that night like many other nights.

Through the years Jill’s mother did visit a couple of times, it was during the visits, Jill found she had another little brother. She couldn’t understand why her mother left her life and had another baby. Jill felt her mother gave the new brother all of her love, and didn’t have any for her, she didn’t understand.

Even after all the heartache her mother had caused, Jill still loved her mother. She still wanted to know and feel what a mother’s love was like. When Jill was thirteen she left her father’s and moved in with her mother. There was still some distance between the mother and daughter, but they became friends.