It's good that you're getting back into contact with your mother.
I've been getting in more contact with my mother as well. Since summer let out I haven't stayed at my mom's house, I've been living with my sister. It was good for me emotionally and mentally because I love having family around, and when my mother and father got a divorce I stayed with my mom. It's the fact that I was alone all the time, my mom worked from 3-11 every day so when I got home from school she wasn't there, and when I'd go to sleep she wasn't there. So the only time I got to see her was when I woke up for school. A period in time where I hated my mother because I thought she was just a bitch but I figured out now the reason I was angry with her was because she was never home, now I just wish I could spend time with her. And now since school is approaching in the next week I'll have to move all my stuff back over to her house and become lonely again. I would just like her to switch hours and not work as much. I have my driving permit but no one can even take me and teach me how to drive.