Mothers and daughters

8 months is too long to not see one of my children. Jen is here this weekend and we are having a fun time, but more importantly we are re-forging the unspoken communication that we have always had but that has seemed to have faded recently.

I think this unspoken communication runs in our family. My mother had it with both my sister and me, my sister and I have it, Jen and I have it and I am pretty sure my sister and her daughter have it. It is that unconscious knowledge that either 1) the other person is going to call or is thinking of us or 2) the other person needs us to contact them for some unknown but important reason.

I still occasionally feel as though my mother is thinking of me. Maybe wishful thinking on my part, but at the time it seems so real.

A woman I used to work with said, and I think it is very true, we never get over the loss of our mother, we just learn to live with it.