Mother's Day: One Day Early

We're celebrating Mother's Day a day early this year. I am scheduled to check in for a paid medical study tomorrow and will be spending Mother's Day having my blood drawn and peeing into a cup.

My husband, ever the good sport, volunteered to drive me to the study at o' dark-thirty tomorrow morning. For the next 4 1/2 days of my time, I will be paid $1000. It beats the pay I get as a substitute teacher.

This will be my third study. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Truth be told, at this point it is all about the money. I don't have the luxury of deciding how I feel about what these experimental drugs could (or couldn't) do to my body. The mortgage must be paid.

On the positive side, when I'm in a study, I enjoy catching up on all my reading. I take lots of naps. I watch lots of t.v. and movies. I feel like I am functioning at the bare minimum level. It's kind of like hanging around your house in your pajamas. Except for the blood draws and the peeing in a cup thing.

I'll miss my family and I'll leave them lots of lists of things to remember while I'm gone.

I hate the fact that that all my kids will see of me on Mother's Day is a series of blue and pink post-it notes.

So, we'll try our best to cram all our celebrating into today and then pretend that tomorrow really isn't Mother's Day at all. Except it will be. And we all know it and that makes it twice as hard for us to be apart.

Which will make it all the sweeter when we're back together on Thursday.

Hey, I know it's just a Thursday. But, when I think about all the hugs and kisses I'm going to get when I'm back...it's almost like another Mother's Day.