Your mom stands for a whole shift and then asks how your day was. Answer like it matters to her, because it does.

Someone can be out of energy and still want the details. Eight or nine hours on your feet empties you, and the natural move at the end is to say nothing to anybody. What she wants is not a report, but a few minutes of being included in your day.

Give the long answer tonight instead of the one-word one. Pick one real thing that happened, funny or annoying, and tell it properly. Then ask her something about her shift, and mean it. Two minutes of that beats an hour in the same room on separate screens.