When a Man Loves a Woman

And I mean the movie, not the sweet-ass Percy Sledge song.

So I used to wonder how moms became alcoholics. And dads. Or I guess not "how" but "why." It seems like once you have abstained from alcohol for 9 months it's pretty easy to just keep laying off the sauce. And after I had Vaughn I felt physically incapable of drinking heavily again. So I didn't really.

This time is totally different. I want to drink like a frat boy, binging like mad, and I think I can do it. I don't think my body would come out unscathed, but I don't think I would die either. I currently have about two drinks a night. Babycenter.com tells me that this could possibly impair my breastfed child's motor development, but my midwives tell me that is not so. I am going with what I want to hear here.

It's a renaissance of sorts. Yeehaw.