It’s close to midnight back home in Ottawa, almost 9 p.m. in Vancouver, and Theo Bair’s phone is vibrating.
He’s come to expect the call – he knows she would have just finished a long shift, and she would check in on Theo, living away from the whole family.
“It is a little bit difficult. Not being able to hug my mom every now and then, but she always tells me everything’s going to be okay,” says Bair, who moved out west at age 15 to join the BMO Whitecaps FC Academy system in 2015.
It’s that nurturing wisdom and care that mothers have by nature.