How did your mother spend her day? Did she have a job or do volunteer work outside the home?
This shows the age of the writer of this journal, lol.
My mother went to college when I was just a little girl. It was pretty impressive, her getting her bachelors in Microbiology when she had four kids under the age of 7.
After she graduated, she started working in labs as a lab tech--basically, she looks at the blood, urine, and stool samples collected at the doctor's offices, and tells the doctors what is wrong with the patient.
Her labs have this amazing smell--you would think that it would smell like crap (*giggles* pun intended), but it has this very clean smell; all the disinfectants and giant machines that are running constantly. It feels weird there, too--some places are very chilly, where the air conditioner is blowing that odd, but interesting, smell on you, making the goosebumps raise on your arms. But near the incubator, it is warmer. You don't want to hang out near the incubator because that's where bacteria and viruses are growing, but it is a little warm island in the middle of the chilly room.
She would sometimes bring me to work--one particular time, I remember that she took me to work because my pediatrician's office was right next door to her work. My doctor said I was the most cheerful person with a 103 degree fever he'd met :)
That was right at my 13th birthday--he gave me some big pink pills to take, and I slept under Mom's desk for the rest of the day.
She had some cool co-workers too. Paul was this cute, but very gay, guy that taught me how to steal snacks from the vending machines in the break room. He was a sweet fella.
She was still very active volunteering at my school and church though. She always had a week's worth of things to do every day. But she was always there for us :)
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