The Pioneer Woman of Vodka | Carri Ellen Brown
Parenting, Vodka, and Life in General
This post was originally featured on World Moms Blog in October of 2011. *** I looked around at their smiling faces as I nervously fiddled with my unkempt hair. When was the last time I took a shower? I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t remember the last time I ate, either. I wasn’t hungry. “Oh, Carri!” My grandma was holding him, his tiny hand wrapped around her finger. “He’s … [Read more...]
I don't remember where we were headed when he asked me that question. It was a question I'd heard so many times before. A question I loathed. A question that immediately put me in defense mode and caused me to throw up the walls I'd been trying so hard to break down. But it sounded different coming from him. "Carri, why don't you want kids?" He nervously looked at me from the passenger … [Read more...]
Today I'm linking up with Mama Kat for her Writer's Workshop. The prompt: This year in blog posts…choose a favorite post from each month of 2011 and share. *** January In January, I wrote two of my favorite posts: Monster was written after a particularly bad anxiety attack. In it, I finally opened up about my anxiety disorder and postpartum depression and began to talk about my mom's … [Read more...]
I was having a serious Twitter discussion with a friend (who's more like a brother) over Thanksgiving dinner. He can't, for the life of him, understand the awesomeness that is The Twitter. He can't figure out what the point of it is, and "By the way, what the hell does pound sign and then a word mean?" "That's called a 'hash tag'." I told him. "No it's not. That's a pound … [Read more...]
Mom of a monster. Wife of a hot rodder. One half of One Martini at a Time. I don't look at the glass as half empty; I look at it as, "OMG! I'm almost out of vodka!" More Awesomeness...
