Express your Gratitude

[Wildflowers]

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I'm grateful for the rain today. Grateful for a new song my daughter texted. Find Me. By Jonathan & Melissa Helser.


[MENTION=7944]dill[/MENTION] Sometimes all the best laid plans and dreams are changed. I'm sorry dill. It's perfectly natural to feel the way you do. Know your also grateful. Healthy enough, to be helping raise your grandchildren. Besides their own parent, no one will love and care for them more. Not sure what the circumstances are. Can they go to daycare one or two days a wk? Or maybe co-op with someone. May not be ideal for travelling, but you'd at least have a day or two for peace and quiet. Which you deserve after retirement. It sounds like they are still quite young. Not school age. If so, no free time in the summer, yet. Are they old enough to take an art class, or summer camp? Can you discuss this with your son, or daughter. Think your married, but not sure. Trying to come up with ideas to help. Just as with drinking, acceptance is the key. Not easy when our plans and dreams change. For myself, I have to be careful not to turn my circumstances into full blown resentments. The need to escape into alcohol is real for many of us. I try not to compare myself to others. A gift of age, I think. No one says you have to be 100% free from alcohol. Some of us don't fall into that category. Still, I try not to allow this in giving me a free license to drink. When I'm confronted with these thoughts, I remind myself there is no real pleasure in drinking. Just the opposite. Thankful, you, I and others aren't giving up. I was about to say how thankful I am for this thread to. Think we should say it often. Feel like here and 24 hr Cafe is like home. Thankful I found a little corner at MWO where I feel like, I belong. :smile: Would have broken this post into paragraphs, but think it might break up the mention feature. Maybe I'll test it sometime. Wanted you to know I have GF who's a widow, age 59 and has all five of her grandchildren living with her. Her daughter was a meth addict. She's living there now to. Helping. She's been clean and sober for six yrs. My GF never has a free moment. Try to help her when I can. Hope your able to receive some extra hands dill. Really glad you spoke about your life circumstances. Sometimes it helps take the power out of our circumstances. Prayers for strength of body, mind and spirit. Hope you know your doing wonderful. It's a pleasure posting with you. Please try and make time to practice self care. Maybe a massage, pedi-mani or a wknd away. :hug: :flower:

[PanhandleKim]

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I am grateful this day had a happy ending. We had a suicidal client at work and he is safe and feeling better.

[abcowboy]

Tonight I'm grateful for all the people who post here, in the Club, and the Cafe. This is what it's all about, just getting through the day sober and being grateful for all the wonderful things you see around you...

[dill]

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I'm grateful for the folks here. And thank you [MENTION=16893]Wildflowers[/MENTION] for the long and thoughtful post. Much food for thought and lots of caring. Much appreciated. About me: I am just turned 65, married for 40 years if we make it to June together! LOL! Two grown children, daughter in New Orleans and son in this area. Three grandchildren. My son and his two young ones are the ones under roof. It is a temporary situation but the end date is yet to be determined. The grandchildren staying here are a girl age 5 and a boy age 11. I am grateful for the blessings in my life, that I have these wonderful grandchildren to enjoy. I think I just need to be more mindful of my personal needs for rest and some periods of solitude throughout the day. That will make the going smoother. Practicing conscious gratitude as we do on this thread is also a powerful tool! Over all I truly am doing well with my sobriety and for that I am truly grateful. On the path and not giving up! While we are at this, perhaps you could tell me a little about you?

[Wildflowers]

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I'm grateful I don't have to be grateful 100% of the time. It's unrealistic. Still, I'm grateful for cultivating an attitude of gratitude. It helps keep me off the pity pot. Believe it's OK and natural to be on the ole pity pot too. Grateful I had an AA sponsor who suggested allocating only five minutes of sitting on my pity pot and then get right back into gratitude mode. Now sometimes it may last longer then five minutes, but I'm aware and do my PB to rise above.

[MENTION=22328]PanhandleKim[/MENTION] I'm sorry for such a stressful day Kim! Very happy to hear your client is now stable!... May he continue to heal and be safe!.... Hope your work day is less stressful today.

[MENTION=7944]dill[/MENTION] Thank you for sharing about you and your family. Congratulations on your upcoming 40th wedding anniversary. Think most married or with partners have felt this way. I know I have. One of my neighbour ladies joked after her hubs retired on how she'd not go bonkers. Lol Was just trying to do what everybody else does at MWO. Be helpful, supportive and caring. Sometimes when someone thanks me, I find it hard to say your welcome. Know I need to get over this. So your welcome. Glad I was able to help a little.

I'm 54, 55 fairly soon. Been married 33 yrs and have two grown daughters and a son. I call him a son, cause they have been together for seven yrs and will be married in Oct. I truly love him as my own. He calls me Mom. We have no grandchildren as of date. Hopeful, one day we will be blessed. If not, that's OK to. Oldest daughter will be 32 this month and doesn't want children. Going to test mention feature. Breaking into paragraphs in hopes its easier to read.

Haven't been working steady do to health problems. Have a background in Hospitality, Freight Brokerage, Manufacturing, Customer Service and Child Care business (when younger). I've also done different types of volunteer work. One of my lifelong GF's has her own business. It's mainly Senior Adult placement and care giving. She also has a Landscape, Run Around Sue and selling all sorts of items. She restores and Re- purposes items. She lives on a farm. So shes a farmer too. She's a talented lady and a wonderful human being. I'm grateful, when I'm well enough she finds work for me. Am hoping I'll become healthier and be able to work more. We could use the money. Concerned about retirement and health care. Anyway probably TMI. Tho, find this was helpful in a way. I tend to feel vulnerable about self. Work in progress not perfection.

Hope your day go's well dill. May you find a little solitude and peace. Oh forgot to tell you I love dill herb. Use it on many dishes. Use to grow it.

[idefineme]

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I am grateful for the interchange here. [MENTION=7944]dill[/MENTION] and [MENTION=16893]Wildflowers[/MENTION], you are two folks that I appreciate a lot, and it's kind of fun to see the gauntlet placed before you both! And the responses are amazing! I love you both! :hug:

I am grateful for Friday ... yesterday I moved my office from one end of the building to the opposite, had a nice, quiet day as a result, but still had some nice interchange with co-workers. Next week will be active and interesting. It will be good. Life is good, and I am grateful.

[Neo]

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Day 3, AL & NF free. Had some intense cravings but L-Glut 40min after lunch helped immensly . kicked in under 15 min .Grateful for the smoke free feel

[PanhandleKim]

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Grateful for time with an old friend today (yesterday technically) - grateful now for bed...

[Sunbeam]

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Neo, glad to see you here persisting.

[Sunbeam]

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I'm grateful for a walk in a park with friends, enjoying the spring wildflowers.

[dill]

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I'm grateful for the simple things in life. It's the small things that bring joy if we let them. "Stop and smell the roses." I don't have roses blooming at the moment, but the Mock Orange is fantastic!

Thank you [MENTION=11738]wild[/MENTION]fowers for telling more about yourself. Nice to get to know you better. Anybody else care to share?

I didn't think to tell what I'm retired from. I was a school-based Speech Therapist for most of my career. Also did some private contracting early on.

[abcowboy]

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I'm grateful for those of us that struggle, but never give up! It's easy to give up when the going gets tough, but real character is shown when you keep at it!

[Sunbeam]

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Dill, we are professional cousins. I am a retired OT. I was school-based in my later years, also worked the entire age spectrum.

[Wildflowers]

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I'm grateful my drinking dream wasn't real.


[MENTION=22391]idefineme[/MENTION] Thank you for your kind observation. Your sweet.. Hope your office move has created Feng Shui. :smile:

[MENTION=22857]Neo[/MENTION] Great job!... Glad the L-Glut is helping. You will become healthier and happier. Look forward to reading more of your journey. Thank you....

[MENTION=7944]dill[/MENTION] It's nice to get to know you better to. Thank you for sharing. I forgot to add last job was B2B sales. Really didn't like. Roses have buds. A little more sunshine is needed. Have to look up Mock Orange. Forgot to say who's next. Forgetting things more often lately.

[abcowboy]

Tonight I'm grateful to be at home sitting in my favourite chair, reading a good book, enjoying my evening with Bubba and Hank...