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Happy Birthday Grammie. Hope your week is extra special. Remember calories don't count so you can have your and too. Much love and blessings to you and your family.
Live strong, Karilynn & Pipere Kitty
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It's your life. Take no prisoners. You will have it your way.
Grammie - happy, happy birthday to you!!! Hope your day was extra special and your cake devine!!
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene
OH thanks everyone and especially to Maria for starting the thread..
It was a wonderful day of joy and reflection, ate wonderful food and the cake was Chocolate.teehee..it was great. On a more serious note, my hubby planned a suprise party for me at a restraunt and all my children came. They could not even keep civil for one evening or stay sober. It was full of joy for about an hour, then the booze took over, alot of anger, yelling and I was in shock, but I stayed out of it even tho it really was upsetting for me. I took to the bed for 2 days.numb, with all my recovery books around me and praying for the lesson to be given to me as to why, I had taken the phone off the hook teehee, my old way of starting the detachment process. But the most beautiful thing happened, when I did finally talk to a program friend, I told him how upset I was and he said....once again reminding me..............Grammie....Birds sing, dogs bark and alkies drink ....it was a simple little line that made me snap out of my funk. Acceptance...it is what it is and thats why I'm here. They are my children, but they are A's and addicts and thats why I'm here to help myself learn to take care of ME so, I said a prayer for them, asked HP to bless them, even forgave them in my heart, and began to find my balace and peace again. It only took 2 days, so I am getting stronger everyday, and you know what?? I cannot even imagine not being an Alanon..the storm has passed for me and my Serenity has been completly restored..by the grace of God. So, here I am 70 years old and still living, loving and best of all so grateful to have you all as my 2nd family. Thanks again for all the nice b-day wishes, it really put a big smile on my face..you guys rock. I learn so much each day from so many of you... Love in recovery, grammie
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Serenity isn't freedom from the storm.. It's the peace within the storm...
to Grammie yesterday.
too. Much love and blessings to you and your family.
