I have noticed a distinctive pattern amongst popular mommy bloggers. Virtually every single one of their Twitter account descriptions includes some derivation of the following:
wine drinker, wine lover, vino obsessed, coffee drinker, coffee lover, coffee obsessed, coffee freak - and then there's the occasional vodka lover -like @BringMommyVodka, whose latest post is a photo of her behind her "besties" the "sassy sixteen" that never let her down.
http://www.bringmommythevodka.com/
Anyway, I think it's quite intriguing that many of these women are literally defining themselves, (at least partially anyway), by what potentially addictive substances they're drinking. Is this a direct result of being a mom, or were they like this prior to birthing a child?
This kind of scares me for a multitude of reasons - particularly given the fact that many of them seem to like both - so I'm envisioning these women pounding coffee in the a.m. to get wired enough to take care of their children, (let alone themselves) and continuing to drink coffee throughout the day so they don't collapse from exhaustion from the previous night's over-consumption of wine and corresponding less-than-restful night's sleep. Mind you, the wine probably becomes essential to wind-down from the excessive caffeine imbibed to get them through their day. A vicious cycle, certainly.
The thing is, I kind-of get it. I have to imagine that if I already need wine at the end of the day, that need will only grow with the addition of children to the Fountain fam.
Perhaps we'll find out.
hmmm... good question. do kids cause us to abuse ourselves in an effort to relieve tension? perhaps. why not try yoga? or running? or murdering people?
ReplyDeleteI already abuse myself, so I might wind up murdering people if we kid. Only time will tell.
ReplyDeletehmmm. interesting point. I'm laughing out loud as I test your theory with all my Twitter people...yep, pretty much we're all substance abusers of some kind. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I've been a coffee addict since my sophomore year of high school. But I didn't go to bed dreaming of my next cup until AFTER I had children ;)