4 - Day 4 of 100 Days of Happiness

I went to a new women's meeting I hadn't been to before. Lots of sobriety and wisdom there. I stopped at my favorite coffee shop and bought myself a little present.  

I came home to a giant breakfast my husband had cooked for me and the kids. After breakfast we took off for my son's baseball game where he came through in the clutch and brought the winning run home. Yay me!

3 - Day 3 of 100 Days of Happiness

My daughter Cinderella, Cindi for short, emptied the dishwasher and I only had to ask her once!  My son, D2, named after Dick, emptied the recycles without me even asking. Score 2 for Mommie!

100 Days of Happiness starts today.

1. I finally colored my hair. This is a chore that I usually go to the hair dresser for but who has time? I have a new passion, tennis, and my kids are home from school!  Still drying so I'll post a pic later with results. 

Aha moments

My children will not remember a time without computers, cell phones and the internet.

When my children tell me about something they realized that is amazing to them, that I already know, I should act as if I didn't.

My Miracles

Outing Myself

Last weekend on the airplane heading to a sober women's meet up, after a lot of shuffling around, I got seated next to a man from a town not far from me. As I usually do, I put on my earphones to listen to my soothing take off music. He noticed that I was listening to Il Volo and started chatting me up in Italian. Which I don't speak. Anyway, we started talking and he turned out to be have a small winery at his house where he makes specialty wine for friends and loved ones. He asked me what my favorite wine was and I said it used to be Chardonnay but I don't drink anymore. I could tell he was fascinated by that answer by the look on his face. He asked me if it was for spiritual reasons or health…? I shocked myself and told him I didn't drink anymore because I had a drinking problem. No shut off. He was more fascinated and asked how that works. I explained that a "normie" could just have a glass of wine but I had to have a bottle (or two…).
He told me he and his wife share a bottle of wine every night and that was it. I said, well your a normie then. He was fascinated like he'd never heard of this concept before and asked me lots more questions. When he asked me where I was going and I almost spit out my (non-alcoholic) drink. I told him I was going on a girls' weekend. His eyebrows shot up and I clarified, a sober girls' weekend. I told him I was going to meet 30 sober women I had met on-line. He almost spit out his (non-alcoholis) drink. So I told him about how I googled if I was an alcoholic in 2010 and found Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's blog where she came out as an alcoholic, and talked about wine at play dates and driving drunk, etc. He said "I just saw something about that the other day" on the Today show! I said I was going to meet with members of the group she started. Uh huh! Truth. At the end of the flight he said he was really glad we chatted and I had certainly given him food for thought about drinking and sharing his wine responsibly. God (HP) shot or what?

Better Later Than Never

 Well, it's not a year later, but a lot of time has passed since my last post. Today I have 269 days since my "sip" slip and 400 plus since my last drink. There are highs and lows and some days I still behave like an alcoholic. I got myself a wise, kindred sponsor and I go to meetings 2 - 4 times a week. I have made some sober IRL friends and come out to most people that I don't drink anymore. Not that I am "alcoholic" but they get the gist and are ok with it.

I feel 100 times better mentally and physically, in spite of aches and pains and ups and downs of every day living. 

I am present for my kids and working on reconnecting with my husband. We have had some major bumps and grown apart slthough we live in the same house. But that's a story for another post.