Mommies Who Drink

"Paesel exposes the secrets of modern motherhood with wit, candor, and plenty of love." -- Ariel Gore, founding editor of Hip Mama and author of The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show For young single women, every night is Ladies' Night. For Brett Paesel and her friends, Friday happy hour is all they get -- if they can wrangle the babysitting. Like most mommies, they support each other through pregnancies, sleep deprivation, and the need to talk about it all. Instead of meeting at the playground, they convene at the local watering hole while sipping Black and Tans and flirting with the cute bartender. With a poignant voice and a fresh style that makes this memoir read like the best women's fiction, Paesel navigates mommyhood in all its forms -- the ecstatic, the terrifying, the tedious, the hilarious, the transcendental, and the sticky. Paesel's laugh-out-loud perspective will appeal to all women who are braving the new world of motherhood, where the secret question on their minds at playgroup is "When is it too early in the day to start drinking?" Brett Paesel is a writer and an actress who most recently appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm. A former cast member on HBO's Mr. Show, Brett writes for television and her literary work has appeared in Literarymama.com, Hip Mama, and Brain Child. She is a married mother of two and lives in Los Angeles.