What are the motifs in Getting Near to Baby by Audrey Couloumbis?

Priorities are recurring ideas.Sometimes it takes a tragedy to make people realize the things that are important in life, the things that can't be changed and the things that are meaningless. Such a lesson is certainly the case in Getting Near to Baby. As the story beings, Willa Jo and Little Sister are two sisters who are visiting their Aunt Patty on an extended visit. There is the hint that a tragedy had brought them there but exactly what has happened is not made clear until further into the story.