Just put the almost 7-month-old down. Started working on the book a bit while nursing. Why not? One day I will laugh and tell my kids how I worked on this book while being a Mom. Literally. Nursing and all. Took a short break to write this post and eat a bowl of late night cereal. Short post, but wanted to update something. Track that I'm still working on this project. Oh, and to say big thanks to Pinterest for the motivational quotes. :)
Hi, my name is Christy, and I don’t drink. I used to. I used to drink kinda frequently, actually. But now I don’t. No, I didn’t hit some ‘rock bottom’ moment, like drinking and driving and almost killing myself (or someone else.) I didn’t stop taking care of my responsibilities while drinking. I still woke up and took care of my kids every day. I just decided that it was getting to be too much. I was starting to dislike the way I felt. And I quit. I don’t drink anymore, but nothing has changed. (Except everything.) I used to be the first to say, with a laugh, “I don’t WANT to parent without alcohol!” Parenting is hard. My children are gifts that I thank God for daily, but the work involved with raising them is the hardest work I’ve ever done. ‘Mommy wine’ culture is a thing, and I was all about it. (well, I wasn’t so much a wine girl as a beer girl, but nonetheless I bought all of the 'mommy juice' sentiment that came with drinking.) I would tell myself that I deser...
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