Girlfriends and Wine = Laughter and Peeing

I have some of the best girlfriends anyone could ask for. A lot of ladies have mommy clubs where they talk about their kids and discuss potential educating experiences they could provide their prodigal children. Other moms have book clubs where they try to make themselves smarter and discuss intense novels and have heated discussions over books that they  read while their little angels were at school and their husbands were hard at work.

Yeah. That's not my reality. When my girlfriends and I get together, it is guaranteed we will laugh until we pee ourselves... Yes, women pee themselves. For real. Especially after popping out a kid or two or four. Generally our conversations start out light. We sip our wine and talk about our kids or our husbands or work. We drink a little more wine and our conversations move to the latest thing we saw posted online. Like this:

Or this:

Then the conversation goes to peeing and pooping habits and whether the door to the bathroom is open or closed in our house when we are doing number 2. (mine is open. Always. Even if I close it, someone feels the need to ask me where their sneakers are regardless of the fact that doing number 2 should truly be a private experience).

As the night goes on and the empty bottles of wine pile up, our conversations go to things that we never ever thought we would share with another human being. "I need to tell you something. It is a secret but I am drunk so I am going to tell you anyway." Private thoughts seem to ooze out of our mouths like that diarrhea that surprises you when you think it is just a little fart. We start to laugh uncontrollably and that's when it happens. Somebody says "STOP, you are gonna make me pee my pants!!" A lot of people say that in times of hard laughter but moms really mean it! It could happen. Just like when we laugh so hard, that fart we have been holding in all night suddenly decides to rear its ugly head and it just happens. Then MORE laughter. Then the pee feeling gets stronger and the next thing you know several women are jumping up from their chairs and running for the bathroom. There is always one who is still laughing and yells, "I DIDN'T MAKE IT!" Then the tears flow and you cannot even control yourself anymore. Those are for real, the best nights ever. When one or more of your friends (or yourself) end up peeing their pants because of laughter.

These truly are the best memories being made. We can all look back at those nights and remember and laugh again and pee our pants again. So if you haven't had a "pee your pants from laughing kind of night" with your girlfriends, you are missing OUT!!