The 'Almost' Mothers Day

Everywhere I go this weekend and everyone I talk to I'm greeted with a "Happy Mother's Day" and I reply, "Um, thanks", laughing a bit as if to say, thanks for the token wishes, but I'm not a mother yet. It seems that everyone wants me to celebrate this day, but me. It's not that I DON'T want to celebrate it, I just feel as if I'm not, technically, a mother yet.

Yes, I'm carrying a child, and have already been taking care of him for 8 months, but for some reason I feel as though Mother's Day should be celebrated by those who have children who live outside of their bodies, by those who have taken on the burden of childbirth and lived to tell the tale.

I've received very lovely cards from my mom, step-mother, and warm wishes by countless others, it just seems to me like I don't deserve any of it yet so I shouldn't give myself completely to the celebration.

Morgan and I aren't doing anything for it, he didn't get me a card or even speak the words Happy Mother's Day to me, and I don't expect him to.

But, watch out Mother's Day 2010! Morgan better get me something good ;o)