Kids are feeling much better...now if we can just get my bf better.  Still haven't managed that MRI for my daughter but she will be seeing a specialist the end of March for the seizures.  I am sure they will order another MRI.
In my last post about our eventful emergency room trip, I spoke about my daughter's dad's wife...(step mother).  I had made my amends to her a while back.  Nothing had ever been spoke of it.  Last night, I spoke with her again.  The amends that I made to her was brought up at some point.  She told me she was sorry for her cold response to it and thanked me for it.  I just told her it was a natural human emotion to have reservations and I wasn't asking for forgiveness, just cleaning up my part of the damage.  That my amends to her still stands and is ongoing in all my relationship.  She still thanked me.  I finally just said, "You're welcome."
As the conversation went on....she admitted to me her daughters' step mother drinks nightly and it makes her girls uncomfortable.  What should she do?  I hit on some of the highlights of Al-ateen and Al-anon in support for her girls.  My experiences and what the program has done for me so far.  I told her I would send her some literature and list of meetings in her area.  If she needed anything additional she could call me or there would be numbers for the group they may want to attend.  I added it would be up to her what she decided to do.

I get a lot of calls about the program.  I get a lot of people who ask me about the program and "how to".  Never in my life would I have imagined someone who had a very strong resentment over me would aks me about it.  The neat part in me was, there was no hesitation.  I knew just what to do...listen...listen justas I always have and tell her what my experience was and about the program.  By mid conversation....I forgot who I was talking to.  It didn't feel like I was talking to the same person who hated me.

After I hung up......my God deal popped into my head....several times.......Al-anon responsibility statement.  "When ANYONE, ANYWHERE reaches out for help, let the hand of Al-anon be there and let it begin with me."  Wow.  I guess the other deal was forgetting who I was talking to and able to do what the program tells me to.

Just wanted to share the progress I made....Wow.  Now I am going to do some back flips in the front yard.  I use to allow her to have so much power over me thoughts.  Through my hard work, there isn't an issue there.  Wow.

Ziggy