“I get by with a little help from my friends. I get high with a little help from my friends.”

Can’t remember who said that, but it must have been a mother!* The two things I need more of as a mother are friends and alcoholic beverages.

I’ve been lucky to have great friends and some great experiences with booze (remember what the Boone’s Farm led to?), but I will admit to being both a selfish friend and a selfish drinker. I was always the person that you didn’t want to leave alone at a table while you went dancing. All the drinks would be empty when you got back.

I’m a mother now. Less time, but maybe more need for the occasional adult liquid refreshment. I drink less often, but make sure that when I do it is as much fun as possible. There was that day a small army of women and children were at my house making vanilla with vodka and whole vanilla beans when we realized that we had open bottles of booze. That was a blast!

The friends I need now as a mother have changed some but the one basic requirement for me is the same. As a selfish friend, I only have time for friendships with people that make me feel good about myself. Of course that is one reason why I LOVE Jeanette! That girl really knows how to stoke my ego. What makes it better is that she’s so wonderful. It makes me feel all tingly inside to know that someone like her likes me! Ummm…she’s even fought over me with others. That’s like the biggest selfish-egomaniac-girl’s wet dream!

I have learned to share my booze with others better—it isn’t as much fun to drink alone. I am also learning how to be a better friend to others. I want to repay friends like Jeanette and make sure that I make them feel as good about themselves as they make me feel about myself.

Here’s a list of just a few things I love and admire about Jeanette:

-Her passion about birth and how that has gotten her two beautiful daughters, helped other women with their birth journeys, and helped create a wonderful place for other people to gather that also care about birth (Arizona Birth Network).

-Her creativity. The way she expresses herself in words and more recently with a camera is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

-Her beauty inside and out is breathtaking!

-Her great judgment…did I mention that she loves me, too?

Here’s a list of just a few things I love about Margaritas:

-There is room for variety and choices. But easy choices and all I can live with. Salt or no salt? Frozen or on the rocks? By the glass or by the pitcher?

-They make anyone you are about to sleep with better looking. Even the guy you’ve been married to for over 11 years!

-They are the right amount of sweet & sour…just like me!

*My husband would die…of course it was The Beatles.