Momma gave up Wine for Lent

I’m as guilty as anyone on this. I can’t think of a New Year’s resolution that I have followed through on for the whole 365 days. From things as simple as ‘telling people what I really think’ to the ever-complicated ‘telling people how I feel’, I’ve not ever followed through on a resolution. Besides I'm kind of frightened about 52 weeks. So I'm working on a solid Lent experience this year. That's 7 weeks. I can do this. This year, in an effort to remain accountable, I’ve decided to document my resolution on the internet. That way if I succeed I can gloat and if I fail at least I was right about never following through. This year I’ve given up booze. Yes, starting with my favorite pink sparkly wine. I have 1000 good reasons to have a glass or two of wine every day, starting with the fact that I’m a preschool director and I have 38 kids, their parents including all sorts of blended family dramas, I have to keep 9 women happy (why Mormon men have multiple wives I never understand), work with 5 state agencies and 2 federal, have 2 kids of my own and The Husband. Ok sometimes it’s more than just 2 glasses and there have been times the next day where I had a second heartbeat in my head which may be actually scaring the gerbils in my office.  So it might be good for me health wise and I figure if Jesus can die on the cross for me I can give up wine and all its tasty warm fuzzy cousins for 40 days. So in light of that I’m going to try to have some yummy punch options on hand so I don’t worry that my wine glass feels unloved or not needed. This is SO easy and everyone loves it, I use a pineapple, lemonade, apple juice frozen concentrate with it sometimes instead of the sherbet and it's wonderful.

Easy Fruit Punch

Original recipe makes 60 (4 ounce) servings

1 (64 fluid ounce) bottle fruit punch, chilled

1 (64 fluid ounce) bottle unsweetened pineapple juice, chilled

1 (2 liter) bottle ginger ale, chilled

(optional) 1/2 gallon any flavor (I use orange) sherbet

 Directions

1.    In a punch bowl, mix together fruit punch, pineapple juice and ginger ale. Add scoops of sherbet into the punch. Wait for the sherbet to begin melting, approximately 10 minutes, stir gently, and serve.