This year, I gave up beer and sweets. Ironicallly, beer is the much harder thing for me.*** I'm tempted daily and I've done silly things to avoid them, like drink champagne at my first trip to the Boylan Bridge Brewpub (figures that establishment would finally open a few days after lent started). The bad news is I've discovered that lent does one of two things to me, neither of which are the desired results. Either I am bitter that I'm missing out on something that everyone else gets OR I'm prideful about how good I am for sacrificing things and showing such self control. Hmmm....I don't think that's they had in mind with Lent. Pretty sure it's not supposed to make me more of a sinner. I might be doing something wrong.
*** (Can't wait till I'm pregnant. I think, based on this experience, that I'll be REALLY good at cheerfully abstaining for 9 months, especially with nausea, exhaustion, and weight-gain as my companions. It's enough to make me re-think the whole kid thing.)
1 year ago
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Tell me about it. My mouth was watering as I walked by an extremely tempting and very large, full glass of red wine today, sitting beautifully on the table of an outdoor cafe... on a gorgeous day. So unfair. I've already requested a nice bottle of wine for celebrating Baby V's birth. So what if I'm still 3 months away!
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