^ Arg, I know what you guys mean about said 'friend'... I have one like that. She just turned 30 and has three kids, and yet EVERY. SINGLE. WEEKEND she is out clubbing with her 'girls' and leaving her DP at home with the kids (two of which aren't his) or dumping her two eldest with their dad so he doesn't whinge about having to look after all 3 kids...
she spends every cent she earns on buying new clothes and shoes and getting her hair done for the upcoming weekend, and then God knows how much she spends on getting drunk every Friday and Saturday night... and yet she complains that her kids drive her nuts and she soooo needs 'some me time' and carries on - and here's me, who has been out drinking ONCE since DD was born nearly two whole years ago, and I'm like 'wtf are you TALKING about you need a 'break', you get one every fricking weekend and if you want to waste it getting blind and being too sick to enjoy it, you've only got yourself to blame there!'

It makes me crazy, I see all these photos of her on FB the next week, all glammed up and looking great and happy and having an awesome time, and I'm like 'Man, that could be me... but I have, ya know, responsibilities to my family, and that means skipping expensive nights out so DD can have nice things and actually being there for her rather than leaving her with a babysitter and then being so hungover for the next 48 hours that I don't really have anything to do with her'....
I mean, I chose to have children, that's the sacrifice I make. I don't begrudge anybody some time out and a fun weekend, but jeeeez, this girl does it EVERY weekend and I'm like 'wtf? you have kids at home, why don't you try being a mother instead of desperately trying to regain your lost youth?'