Came down, great news that brought me tears of joy. You have worked hard and you have every reason to be proud.

For all of us there is a story of redemption.


Good luck LB

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You guys all rock! I am glad I have a place to come to that is full of inspiration and wonderful examples of recovery. Love it!!

Lotus....goodluck, I have no doubt you you dont really need it hun. :)

My Weeman and I are getting so excited about going to the snow. I told him there was an 84cm base of snow and he asked me how much that is. I get out the tape measure and show him....up to his armpit almost! He said......oh that is too deep for me Mummy, I'll drown........I dont want to go in it. I assured him it was only on the upper mountain....he said lets not go up there then. Such a wise Weeman, I had to stop peeing myself laughing long enough to agree and then remind him to remind me about taking a carrot. Oh fun is gonna be had!

Welcome Lovinsobriety3 and Rossy! Glad you are here!

Good luck LB!

Camedown, what a beautiful experience you had with your daughter. Sobriety brings such gifts in our lives!

Enjoy your trip in the snow Manz! Weeman is so funny! Here in MI the temp is supposed to get close to 100.

I too am grateful for this forum and especially this thread. You all bring such hope and encouragement. Such positivity and I always learn something every day from you. Musically or about my computer, lol Itchy! I love the fact that we are all over the world. Just amazing!

Have a great day today overs!

I really like this forum,lots of great people :-)

Tipping and camedown...just, wow. I have nothing else that needs to be added to that. Thank you. You two are amazing in different ways. Camedown...inspiration for me to keep at fixing my personal relationships too.

I actually...take that back. (lol) I broke down last night and normally bottle everything up, the strong independent, I don't need anyone, I can take on everything woman/girl...whatever. I actually broke down a barrier last night and told my mom stuff I normally wouldn't have. She didn't know any of it. Her especially, I am always so distant toward. I'll tell everyone and their brother everything...but her. She didn't know how bad things had gotten for me stress wise, emotionally, how much stuff I had going on and how tough things had been financially....how it was wearing down. We had a good long hour phone conversation. Most I've talked to her in...phew. Can't remember.

Vigilance.

Have a good day.

And thank you for two amazingly inspirational stories.

Thanks guys, I just seem to notice that if I spend an hour plus each day at a meeting and calling drunks and saying prayers, I stay sober that day, and wake up a bit better the next. Progress not perfection.

I agree Came!

Manz! Hey it is 103 degrees here today. That is 39.5 degrees in New Zealand lingo. You guys must have a lot of rocks because you keep talking about weighing stones too. I hate the climate here and am here only to help aging parents. Yep, hard as it is for you guys to imagine, we are someone's kids too.
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Anyway I grew up with snow and lived in Germany for 7 years after being stuck in the south for several years. We also loved Colorado for three years. It doesn't even get cold enough for jackets here in winter. I mean jackets, not hoodies. :wild

Teach wee man how to make snow angels, and tell him to make some for us that are stuck in the heat.
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I hope everybody is as content as their posts reflect, because if you are half as tickled as I am reading the posts of my esteemed colleagues, then we are all doing quite well!

Hey Itchy.....

Yesterday my daughter posted, "Summer is my favorite season........said no one from Louisiana". :)

A little intro
 

Good evening everyone. Just thought I'd introduce myself a little more, so I can start to feel like more of a part of the group:)

First, I do love sobriety!! I guess you have to be ready to appreciate such an awesome gift. I wish I'd known that life would be this good and I've had gotten my act together a lot sooner. Oh well, just glad it happened when it did.

I'm a single mom of two young kids. We live in North Carolina. Not from here, and my mom recently moved away--so sometimes I feel a bit alone. I'm thankful for a couple of really supportive friends, one of which is my sponser. My mom has been in AA for the last 22 years. I went to LOTS of meetings to support her, but was always in denial about myself. I guess I always thought that AA was her thing-plus my drug of choice was marijuana-I thought I could drink just fine. Of course except when I ran out of weed--I just drank more LOL.

So now I'm about at 15 months. I don't make as many meetings as I'd like to due to work and two kids who keep me at home at night. That's one of the reasons I wanted to find some more fellowship, and online will work :)

I look forward to getting to know you all!

welcome aboard officially LS :)

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Lovin,
Well met! I like to have fun here as I don't think being sober means I feel deprived and dour. To be honest I haven't looked back since detox in a VA hospital. I have an AW but that only caused some problems recently that are no longer issues. On the whole I am one lucky dude. My two boys are grown and likely older than you! I have been married to the love of my life for 40 years this Sept. There have been times I didn't think I was going to make it.

My mom was a single mom for most of my life and I have a special respect for you single moms. At least you did go to AA for yourself eventually. My real problems with alcohol didn't start until I was in my very late 30s. I love that so many folks are quitting much earlier than I did.

I tend to think out loud here and write some long posts. Lately I use a tablet to post and make lots more typos and they are harder to fix. I have several desktops laptops and a netbook so no excuse, just getting lazy kicked back in my recliner. I saw several sentences I either didn't finish or deleted. So try to read around the typos. They used to call it being able to read in Itchy!:lmao

Sounds like you'll fit right in.

Thanks for sharing that, LS. I am a single parent, too. My daughter is 8. She spends half the week at her mom's, half the week at mine. I quit for me (sure didn't work the times I tried quitting for someone or something else), but I'm never more grateful for my sobriety than when I'm spending time with my daughter. :)

Speaking of which, I'm going the opposite route as you Manz, taking the kiddo camping. We're taking the week off from work/day camp, but will spend one night in the mountains. OK, I guess technically camping in the desert would be more like an opposite of snow... but it's crazy hot out there right now. This will be her first night camping anywhere except the back yard—looking forward to it!

I am slowly learning that the small steps when added up do make big changes. I have always been a procratinator, prone to blaming others and circumstances- I can now see that progress can be made in small lumps and it's working for me

Morning overs!

CD, thank you for sharing your story, what a blessing. May your continuing dedication keep you safe and bring you happiness.

Off to run just 3 and then into NYC for a BIG CONFERENCE that a week ago was just an unachievable dream. You know that Goethe quote about just beginning and then the path appears? Well, that.

welcome lovey

Just one more day until I hit a year which I thought would be virtually impossible but its not if you put your mind to it :turn:

Good Morning Dear Overs!

Rossy....you are so right about possibilites. In the beginning, I could not wrap my brain around a whole year of sobriety. But the longer I get into it, the more natural it becomes. I want to congratulate you a day in advance. Happy Birthday, friend!

No earth shattering news from here. Just wanted to say have a grand day everyone!

Thanks LDT I am finding it really easy not to drink,if people don't like it well thats there problem.

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Tell your daughter that she sure captured my feelings about it perfectly. I couldn't have said it better.

Hotter today and I get to go out and mow the three acres that are cleared. The neighbors do the mornings but I prefer mowing in the sunny hot afternoons when the grass is dry and all the morning dew has burned off.

We are also still too dry up here, hope you are getting more rain than we are.

NO rain down south itchy....dry as a bone. I've given up on watering my garden because even when I do, it's a wasteland a couple hous later.

Dreaming of fall.....