Foreshadowing+and+Speculations

I think he is saying or talking about that he has never paid attention to his mother. I also think that he is saying that he never spent time with his mother. When him and his mother got stuck at sabbath creek motar court he really started to understand her, but it wasn't something over time it just hit him. " In the middle of a thunderstorm late one night when it was almost all over there she was". This quote is when he figured out that things about his mother.