OK - this is something that has been preying on my mind for a while now and I just wondered what other people think.
I have a friend (from pre-children days) who is always having a little go because I no longer drink the night away with her. DH, DD and I will go over for BBQ's during the day and he will have beer or 3, but I always drive as otherwise v. diff to get to, and we leave in time to get DD to bed. She has 3 kids and has always taken them out with her to parties as she does not think having kids should change her lifestyle. That is fair enough - her life, her choice - but I don't see why I am the anal, uptight one because I don't share her POV.
We still go out for girls nights out and generally have a good time, but I never really let rip as I cannot do with the hangovers these days. I rarely get proper drunk anymore - only when away from home for the night (RARE)
Two things stick in my memory - her 18mth old daughter tugging at her arm in the early hours when she was passed out on the sofa at a party, with 6 week old son in car seat next to her and telling her 4 year old son that he couldn't go to bed at 11.30pm because it was a PARTY. When I had my DD I decided that this wasn't the way I wanted things to be for me.
Is it just me or am I a boring old fart these days?? I still like a drink or two and don't have any major probs with having a drink in front of DD, but feel my priorities have changed.
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bootsmonkey · 12/05/2004 12:57
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