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Post by Firebird on Jun 7, 2012 16:23:39 GMT -5
How often? How much? Have they ever seen you drunk? What are your feelings about it? It seems opinions vary wildly on this. Lest anyone think I am asking this to justify a major binge after the Babybird arrives... I can't even remember the last time I've been drunk Just curious to hear what all of you think.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Jun 7, 2012 16:25:51 GMT -5
"Drunk" can mean so many things. It can mean loss of senses, stumbling around, volunteering opinions, being extra insightful, or just turning the PC filter and the "I care what you think" filter to "OFF".
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 7, 2012 16:30:04 GMT -5
I rarely drink (don't tell the EErs ) but when I do it's usually at home and the worst I get is tipsy. I get past that and it's not child appropriate. Oldest DS thinks I'm hilarious when I'm tipsy.
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Post by swamp on Jun 7, 2012 16:32:07 GMT -5
Once in a while I have a beer or a glass of wine in front of my kids. They've never seen me drunk, although I rarely get drunk anymore. Hangovers and little kids do not mix, and the hangover lasts 4 days now.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jun 7, 2012 16:35:45 GMT -5
Once in a while I have a beer or a glass of wine in front of my kids. They've never seen me drunk, although I rarely get drunk anymore. Hangovers and little kids do not mix, and the hangover lasts 4 days now. You do realize for every decade you age, the number of days it takes you to recover from a binge increases by a factor of 2.
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Post by zibazinski on Jun 7, 2012 16:37:52 GMT -5
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jun 7, 2012 16:38:12 GMT -5
We'll have a bottle of beer or glass of wine around the kids relatively often. Hell, I let them have a small sip of each batch of beer I've ever made. I enlist them as unpaid labor to help bottle it all, and they've helped me brew a couple of the batches. We rarely get drunk though. It's been years since I got stumbling around drunk. Probably before the kids were around now that I think about it. We have on occasion gotten a bit tipsy around them though. Always at home because we don't drive if we're having more than one drink, and there's usually some kind of social event going on. We don't sit at home and get drunk just for the fun of it.
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Post by Tired Tess on Jun 7, 2012 16:40:36 GMT -5
Oh, yes, they've seen me drink.
Daughter helped me to my room once.
Oldest son helped me up the stairs.
Middle son has bar tended at my group gathering at my home.
This "new me" started a year ago when I found a new group of friends. I love them. It's only a once a month get together (but we are in touch in between visits) and it's the only time I drink.
I'm never sick the next day, just a mild headache and it goes away with two Motrin, toast, and coffee.
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:44:40 GMT -5
My kids never saw me tipsy until they were over 18 (they saw me dancing wildly the same night...in the neighborhood...block party). I am not sure if they have seen Dad tipsy...don't think so. They never really saw us drink much before they were grown...we were so busy driving them around and attending their activities and having their friends over...it was all about THEM! NOW, IT'S ALL ABOUT US! Woot!
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:46:43 GMT -5
I agree...I don't DO hangovers anymore...so over THAT! I know my limit...three of whatever...at the most! Usually two.
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:47:19 GMT -5
^Not daily...that's not what I meant...
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:48:01 GMT -5
I just hate the spins...
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Post by movingforward on Jun 7, 2012 16:49:01 GMT -5
Where is MT - I want to hear her answer on this one - LOL!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2012 16:49:46 GMT -5
Of course nobody on this board drinks around their kids. Nobody on this board ever does anything wrong, remember? ;D
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Post by Firebird on Jun 7, 2012 16:49:48 GMT -5
We don't sit at home and get drunk just for the fun of it. Sure, that's something most of us do in our 20's while we're childless and the hangovers don't last more than an hour. YOU get to do it when you're in your 40's and childless and the hangovers will last for three days. Neener!
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:50:04 GMT -5
The kids aren't big drinkers...they can take it or leave it. They work early and long hours...limited time to socialize for them.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jun 7, 2012 16:50:13 GMT -5
DH taught DS to fetch him a beer from the fridge when DS was 18mo. ;D Funniest drinking story: we were camping a few years ago with a bunch of people and someone had brought their scotch in a Camelbak water bottle that looked exactly like DD's water bottle (I think she was 2-3yo at the time). DD found it on the table and took a swig (pure scotch). You should have seen her face. She's six now and totally remembers that. Maybe she'll never be able to drink scotch as an adult.
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:50:53 GMT -5
"YOU get to do it when you're in your 40's and childless" Empty nest=good times!
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Post by Firebird on Jun 7, 2012 16:50:58 GMT -5
skinnykids - I did the same thing on a camping trip with a thermos of black coffee thinking it was hot chocolate when I was five or six. I detest coffee to this day.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jun 7, 2012 16:51:24 GMT -5
I've only been drunk once since DS was born and he was in asleep by the time I started drinking. We were with DH's family at a wedding at a resort and the majority of DH's family stayed sober: DH, BIL, my two underage nieces, and MIL. SIL and I got drunk with the bride's sister. DS has seen me drink now and then, but not very often.
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:51:52 GMT -5
"Maybe she'll never be able to drink scotch as an adult."
Never had it myself!
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Post by Firebird on Jun 7, 2012 16:53:46 GMT -5
Not that I would know this personally but APPARENTLY a 2 glasses of wine + hit of Nyquil buzz is pretty sweet
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 16:54:17 GMT -5
Of course nobody on this board drinks around their kids. Nobody on this board ever does anything wrong, remember? Let's just say that Southern Comfort Old Fashion sweets look a lot like iced tea...to my kids anyways... he he It's all about the glass you put it in...wine looks like fruit punch too...
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Post by movingforward on Jun 7, 2012 16:55:01 GMT -5
I hate Scotch - yuck!!
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Post by giramomma on Jun 7, 2012 16:55:03 GMT -5
We occasionally drink in front of the kids. I also let my oldest have a sip sometimes when he asks.
I get tipsy off one hard Mike's after pregnancy, so I don't drink a ton even after bitrh, especially when I have night time baby duty.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jun 7, 2012 16:57:11 GMT -5
Once in a while I have a beer or a glass of wine in front of my kids. They've never seen me drunk, although I rarely get drunk anymore. Hangovers and little kids do not mix, and the hangover lasts 4 days now. You do realize for every decade you age, the number of days it takes you to recover from a binge increases by a factor of 2. That's why you keep drinking. No hangover. When I had step kids and my nieces or nephews around I'd maybe have one at home or at dinner. But when I'm out and when the nieces and nephews were young I needed all my senses to keep up with them! And if I'm driving I never have alcohol. Especially with them in the car.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jun 7, 2012 16:58:49 GMT -5
I think our funniest drinking story involving the kids happened when the oldest was only four or five months old. At the time I was really fond of Jagermeister and Dr Pepper. You can mix that stuff almost 50/50 and it still tastes alright, which is how I liked to drink it. Anyway, there was a group of us hanging out and that's what I was drinking. Loop was having a little bit of mine, but didn't realize how much booze I'd put in, so didn't realize how much alcohol she was actually drinking. She breastfed our daughter, who spent the next half an hour giggling uncontrollably and falling over. She couldn't stand yet of course, but was normally pretty good at sitting up on her own. Instead she was sitting there staring at a TV that wasn't turned on, laughing her little baby butt off, then she'd fall over and start laughing even harder. It was such a parenting fail, but holy crap drunk babies are hysterical.
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Post by moxie on Jun 7, 2012 17:09:15 GMT -5
"I don't drink a ton even after bitrh, especially when I have night time baby duty." Yeah...that's tough, but once they start sleeping through the night...Whoo hoo!
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Jun 7, 2012 17:18:05 GMT -5
I have a glass of wine right now and my three year old and I are hanging in the backyard! DH and I have been digging and leveling all day for the pool, I deserve it ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2012 17:35:38 GMT -5
I'll have to say we drink around the grandkids, and their parents drink around them . . . and us. It is very hard for a parent to see even their thirty-five year old kids drink. I think they save the "wild party" drinking (always at home or in the hotel on vacation) for when grandparents have the kids. It would be dangerous to drink and have my oldest two grandkids. The ER is their second home. I only drink at home. My DIL and I went to see the SATC premiere (first one), and she suggested we get margaritas. I declined, citing the "I only drink at home" rule. She pointed out that the movie theater was next door, and I'd surely be over the buzz after the movie. It did make the movie much more enjoyable.
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