absent mother

This absent mother business is so tiresome. She has been so busy she just has not had time to call to check on her daughter. I wish she would just give it up sometimes. What would be happening if she was working everyday and coming home to take care of the youngest one by herself? Would she get her fed and bathed on time? Or would she be moaning and groaining about trying to do things "by herself" like she used to do? I wonder. She happened to mention that she was back at her mother's. Seems that the boyfriend has gotten work in Alabama so she can't stay at his mother's house while he is gone. She can not settle down. She was beside herself yesterday evening telling me she was trying to get in a house and having to help the boyfriend with a ride because his truck broke down on the way back from Alabama. She is so wrapped up in her own drama that she just lets this one ride. There was so much going on during the phone call she couldn't keep up with what she was telling me. She always says she will call back and then she doesn't. She blows some smoke about all the exciting things she will do with her daughter the next time they are together, and she falls for it. But later she will tell me something like "If she comes to get me, cause Mama lies".