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When Enough is Enough and You Know It’s Enough
I realized that the solution to my problem was simple. I could drink, I just couldn’t let anyone catch me drinking or drunk. Thus began the nights of “going to bed early because I’m sober now and that’s what sober people do,” aka, drinking in my bedroom with the door locked.
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The Cost of Mommy’s Wine Time and How I Broke Free
When my son was a baby, my drinking would have been considered part of what is now (the very normal and encouraged) “Mommy’s wine time” culture. I’d put him down for bed in the early evening – after a very long day of all things baby! – I’d flip on the baby monitor, head to…
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How Drunk is too Drunk?
Today is my birthday, and it is my first sober birthday in a long, long time. My birthday slogan for many years was, “No one should remember the day they turn a year older,” and boy oh boy did I make sure that was the case. I threw huge, booze-soaked parties almost every year, and…
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It’s Ok to Not be Ok – Breaking the Bond of Mommy’s Wine Time
I’m so proud of myself for being sober this Christmas season because last year I was a mess. A hiding my bottles in my shoes mess. I sunk into a Mommy’s Wine Time routine as an accepted adult comfort, but drinking became the problem, not the solution. My husband is in the military so he…