that was hard

We went to see our lil' love bug last night at her home. It was wonderful to see her and she was so excited, i could hear her screaming as we walked up to the house, 'my friends are here, my friends are here!' She was happy to see us and we spent about two hours at her house visiting with her, her mom and her little sister.
Mom expressed some concern because our lil' love bug had such a hard time after the last visit. She cried, was mad at her mom and the boyfriend said he felt she was distant with him for a few days. I can definitely understand her being cautious with the visits but we also agreed that if the visits are more consistent and our lil' love bug understands that the visits are regular occurrences, then that would make it easier for her. She is having such a hard time because she doesn't know when she is going to see us again. Especially because after this last visit we all told our lil' love bug that she was going to see us again soon. We reassured her not to worry and she could come spend time with us here at our house, come see the dogs. Then mom didn't follow through. She was an emotional mess when we left her house last night. She kept begging to go with us, said she wanted to go to our car and we kept having to tell her that she had to stay with her mommy and we would see her again soon. I can totally understand why she wouldn't believe us though. We told her that last time and then we weren't able to see her for almost two months. She doesn't believe we will be back to see her soon. She clung to Brian's leg, started crying and wouldn't let us leave. It was awful, it took all we had not to break down right there. She was so sad. We all agreed she could call us before she went to bed last night and then it never happened! It makes me so angry that her mom just doesn't seem to get it. She knows exactly what to say but she has absolutely no follow through.
I hope that for our lil' love bug's sake her mom will let her come spend time with us on a regular basis and we can come up with a schedule. She said we could stop by anytime and see our lil' love bug. We are going to take her to the zoo next sunday, i am very excited about that and thankful we have a date set for us to see her again. In the future i want to be sure that we never leave a visit with her without having another visit scheduled. Leaving her last night was so hard, i was so sad and we just broke down in the car. I can still see her clinging to brian's leg and crying. I don't want her to go through this every time we see her. It was too hard on all of us, i just pray that consistency will help her to realize that she can see us, have a good time, be a part of our life and still go home and enjoy her family and home.