The Parent Hangover
So, I've been sober for almost 8 years. I have had my fair share of hangovers, believe you me...but I also knew how to deal with them. I had a routine down on how to combat them. If I had drunk hard liquor, I knew to feed my hangover. If it was wine, I would just make myself throw up. But the biggest weapon in my arsenal when dealing with an alcoholic hangover was sleep. Lots and lots of glorious sleep. But these weekends with Little Man are giving me hangovers of a more draining and exhaustive type. I mean, I kind of assumed we'd slow down on the amount of 'going' we did because we'd get a routine or run out of things to do or something. But we haven't and there doesn't seem to be a chance of slowing down any time soon. And I'm tired. It's a deep exhaustion that I'm learning doesn't get touched by actual sleep. It's the exhaustion of recovering from one of his meltdowns, having to deal with the side effects of someone being s...