This time last year
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This time last year
This time last year I was shopping for Christmas presents drunk. This time last year I was fretting about how I was going pay my bills, buy christmas presents, and booze. This time last year I was hung over every morning.
Last Thanksgiving I worked and came home to cook dinner. Dinner turned out real good and I was sober, but the shakes were so bad I had to hide in the bathroom as not to alarm my daughters. This time last year I was in a fight with my boyfriend. One foot out the door because I was sneaking booze again. This holiday I am sober. This time this year I can hold my head up high knowing I have had 4 solid months of sobriety. I told my daughter that all I wanted for christmas was for her and her sister to forgive for being a horrible mother and a drunk. She said "mom, I have already forgiven you". Made me cry. Best present ever! Merry Christmas to me!
Last Thanksgiving I worked and came home to cook dinner. Dinner turned out real good and I was sober, but the shakes were so bad I had to hide in the bathroom as not to alarm my daughters. This time last year I was in a fight with my boyfriend. One foot out the door because I was sneaking booze again. This holiday I am sober. This time this year I can hold my head up high knowing I have had 4 solid months of sobriety. I told my daughter that all I wanted for christmas was for her and her sister to forgive for being a horrible mother and a drunk. She said "mom, I have already forgiven you". Made me cry. Best present ever! Merry Christmas to me!
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Originally Posted by Cardinalfan 
Amen, smiles and hugs for you! This year you gave your children and yourself the greatest gift ever....you.
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I don't know how I got through my last "drunk" Christmas ... Last year was my first sober one. I felt so happy with myself at that point .. and I am sure the whole house felt more relaxed and much happier in general. I have two girls too .. being a sober, regular, available mom to them is the best feeling, and I know it's creating good memories that are slowly by surely overtaking any not-so-good ones. Sobriety rocks. 
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This is just amazing to read. It hits home with me because last week I WAS shopping drunkenly for my baby girl's first Christmas decorations (stockings, etc.). I am so happy I won't have to go through her first Christmas drunk and forget half of what happened. Thank you for your post and congrats, happy holidays indeed!
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Well done Soberred. You've done brilliantly.
Christmas for me was fine last year and I managed to stay sober so as not to spoil the occasion but on New Year's Day I ended up in accident and emergency after a fight. Sad, but it won't happen again.
Christmas for me was fine last year and I managed to stay sober so as not to spoil the occasion but on New Year's Day I ended up in accident and emergency after a fight. Sad, but it won't happen again.
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Congrats on you success. I am also looking forward to my first sober Thanksgiving. Last year, I started with shots at 8am and by the big meal time, I was so nauseated and on the verge of black out. I ate a few bites and had to feign the flu. I hope it will be different this year.
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