Sammy's Thoughts:
Sometimes I worry about my mom. Cus I'm all she has, you know? My dad left us awhile ago and I don't get to see him much anymore. I don't think Mom misses him so much, but I think sometimes she might be lonely for someone else. I don't know who. I just feel it cus I'm smart way down on the inside!
Like yesterday. She should have been happy. We decided to have a day without chores since she had a day off of both of her jobs (that ... like, never happens!) and she took me out of school for the day so that we could have fun together. We played outside together and went on an adventure and got hot dogs and ice cream and soda at a food truck near a park. The person who made the hot dogs wondered why I wasn't in school and Mom said that it was a parent/teacher day (although really it wasn't). I asked her about it later and she said that I was having a spend time with a parent/give a teacher a break day, which I think is really fun. We had a great time and Mom didn't even complain about laundry once. But then last night, after bedtime I felt really thirsty and wanted to get a drink. I went downstairs real quiet cus I didn't want to scare her - but she kinda scared me, even if it was by accident and I know that she didn't know I was there.
She was sitting on the couch, crying.
I don't like when Mom cries.
It wasn't a hurt crying. It wasn't a sick crying. It wasn't a bleeding crying.
I think she was lonely.
I snuck away real fast so she wouldn't see me cus she never likes crying in front of people. I might be a kid but I do know that real well about her. She's super brave and didn't even cry when she stepped on that piece of glass from a cup I broke one time. So if she's crying from being lonely it must be hurting her inside real bad.
I think that maybe adults are supposed to have other adults around to help them with stuff like laundry or fixing stuff or maybe watching tv shows that are real boring but that she watches anyway. At least my friends parents seem to usually have people to help them. But my mom's all by herself. When I grow up I'll help her lots (until then, I'll keep helping when I can with kid stuff). But I wish that she had someone grown up to help her. Maybe that'd make her feel less lonely. Then she wouldn't cry. I'd like that. I don't like when she cries.
I wish someone would come help her.