A MOM FOR CARLY by Jenn Webster
It was a couple of weeks before Mother's Day; Renee, who works as a social worker, never married and had no children. Still, Renee wishes that she had a child of her own to care for and love. However, Renee never had that wish come true…
One day, Renee’s supervisor called her up and asked her if she could go to the foster home and to just take care of a young girl named Carly for one day. At first, Renee was skeptical over having to take care of a little girl for a day, because she never had any children at all. But she thought that, despite this unfortunate setback, she decided to take the job.
The next day, Renee paid a visit to the foster home, and there, Carly saw her at first glance and ran straight up to her right away. Renee took one look at this smiling young girl and thought to herself that maybe she felt that maybe the time was right to give child caring a chance.
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And so it was that Renee and Carly became the best of friends as they went out together; first, they went to the library to do some learning, and then they went to the park to take a nice walk and to look around and see the wonders of nature. First, Renee took Carly to the lake to watch the little ducks swim by, while feeding the bread crumbs to them. Then, they looked at some of the trees as the green buds were beginning to bloom into green leaves.
Afterward, they went and sat on the bench to relax; as they relaxed, Renee took a closer look at Carly. She then began to think that she suddenly began to have this feeling for her because Carly never had either a mother or a father, and then began to think that if she could adopt Carly and then learn to become a mother for her, then maybe it would be just a whole new beginning for her and Carly. And it was right there and then that Renee decided to adopt Carly.
So Renee returned Carly to the foster home and asked the supervisor if she could adopt Carly; she then got all of the paperwork together so that her dreams of becoming a mother for the very first time would come true…
And then, it was Mother's Day, and Carly, now adopted, went downstairs for breakfast to give her Mother’s Day card, which she had made herself, to her new mother, Renee, who at last had finally become a mother.
There are children who have mothers and other children who do not have a mother at all, and it's simply because their mother had died or that they were born out of wedlock and that they do not know their mothers once they are put in foster homes. But if those children need to be adopted by adult people who just might try their hands at being a father or even a mother, then the world would be a much better place in which to live.
©2026 Jenn Webster
