The Whispering Angel

It's okay to take your baby into the liquor store as long as it's a reasonably nice liquor store, and as long as your just getting wine.

I love wine, which is just one of the great many reasons that I love not being pregnant anymore.  There is a Goody Goody liquor store just around the corner from our apartment that carries Whispering Angel, an excellent French rosé.  The sweet guys who run the place usually have some hidden in the back of the refrigerator for me. 

another excellent reason to continue my current state of non-pregnancy

I have a baby, and I've heard that you can't leave babies in the car.  (We all know this and yet there's always some woman leaving her kid in the car in the middle of summer.  My theory is that she's just not that into her kid anymore.)  So, this means that Poppy is coming into the liquor store with me.  The first couple of times we did this, I did feel a little weird about it.  But I want my vino, and I'm Poppy's primary caregiver, so she's going in there too.  Sometimes people make funny little comments as I'm carrying her in.  Comments like: 

liquor store patrons:  'She like vodka or scotch?' or 'Let's get that baby a beer!'.  

To which I reply (somewhat defensively) with the following justification : 'Oh, we're just getting wine'.   

I've had some time to think about it and I have arrived at the following conclusion: It's okay to take your baby into the liquor store if you are just buying wine.