I'm glad sodev. that things in life are not
written in stone because things in life are
always changing. Yesterday is gone forever,
tomorrow isn't written for us yet and so we
have today.
Each day is different and will continue to
be different even if it doesn't seem so at
the moment. You and Aaron will continue
to change with each day that passes. One
more yr of growth mentally, emotionally,
physically, spiritually.
Little baby Aaron will be out of those infant
clothes before you know it. Which reminds
me of my 2 babies I had yrs ago. My son, Kenny
was my first and was 2 weeks passed due, and
was born almost 10 lbs almost like a football.
He didn't start off in infant clothes because he
was to big for them. However, when I had my
daughter, Jennifer, she was 7 lbs and was able
to begin in some infant clothes.
They grow out of those baby clothes so
fast, but with each birthday they celebrate
so does the neat clothes we buy them,
the cool toys, teaching them, preparing
them for the day they begin school.
I promise you that you wont have too
much down time running with baby Aaron
as he grows. You will be out and about
meeting other parents of children the
same age as Aaron.
I don't know if you read other folks posts
about having their own kids dealing with
addiction, or spouses, relatives, friends
all struggling and wanting to know how
to deal with them themselves.
Finding ways to educate themselves with
addiction in the family. How to take care
of themselves who feel angry, frustrated,
uncertain about what addiction has done
to their loved ones.
Its a sickness, illness, disease that can
tear a family apart for sure. And it could
have done that with my own family yrs
ago if the love, care and concern they had
for me to get me help 26 yrs ago hadn't
happened.
I had my 2 babies in 84 and 87 before family
intervened on me in 90 sending me to rehab
where I stayed for 28 days receiving the knowledge
and tools of a recovery program to help me
remain sober one day at a time while balancing
family and recovery the same time.
I am very grateful for what my family did
for me because it allowed me to become
the best mom and parent I could be to my
babies as they grew up before heading
off to college.
I'm not gonna say it was easy because it
wasn't as I continued to change and grow
in life and recovery too. However, I had an
affective program of recovery to use as my
guideline along with Faith and my Catholic
up bringing for strength and guidance from
Above.
Anyway.....for you today and moving forward
you now have experience in your corner because
he have already gone thru this experience with
addiction of a loved one which took him away
too soon.
Arming ourselves with knowledge of addiction
and tools of a recovery program will help you
in raising little Aaron. The same thing that happened
to me. With experience of addiction to alcohol
and all that went with it, the progression of the
disease if not put to sleep would have kept me
sick or possibly dead by this time today.
I chose to live and be a shining example
to my kids about addiction and recovery
before setting off to live their lives on their
own.
Yes, they did learn and have grown into 2
awesome kids with families of their own
today with no addiction thank God.
You will have your whole life ahead of
you teaching little Aaron, guiding him
before it will be his time to be on his own.
Stay strong and positive because you wont
have time to be a spinster with loads of cats,
maybe a few and a puppy.
You will continue
to learn and add to your own experiences,
wisdom, hopes to your own life and passing
them on to baby Aaron and others around you.
Your journey in life continues with every
breath you take, with every step you take
with Faith, hope and love.