Thursday, January 21, 2010

Drunk rainbows

I am sitting here watching Oprah and today's topic is Intervention. One of her guests was extremely addicted to alcohol, and they keep showing this clip of the alcoholic mom, passed out on the front lawn, as her kids walk by her wondering what the heck happened to her. She tells Oprah how she wishes she could get back all the time she wasted, drunk and not there for her kids.

And no, I was never that drunk, but it is so freeing to know my kids will never think that about their mom. They will never have to come across me lying on the lawn, or stupidly blabbering away at a party, or passed out on my bed, hours before bedtime. They might think other things about me, but it won't be anything related to DRUNK! And that feels good.

You know what else feels good? Seeing these in the middle of a southern California storm (you kinda have to look closely):




Life is good.

4 comments:

  1. I'll third that. I love your blog!

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  2. My kids were 5,4 and 18 months when I quit drinking. I am so glad that hopefully they will have no memory of me even drinking. No, I was not passed out in my front yard, but the possibility was there, I'm certain.

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