Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Happy Thanksgiving Steppers!
Happy Thanksgiving Steppers!
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for all of you:heartbeat:
Turkey is in the oven and the house smells delicious! Enjoy your day!Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Hey Cowboy and Liz....ooohhhh....the smell of turkey in the oven. LOVE!!!
Cowboy, I know it is not Thanksgiving in Canada but I hope your day is as productive as you want it to be. :-)Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Happy Thanksgiving my steppin friends! Hope you all have a wonderful AF Day
I have too much shit to do today and tomorrow to drink:sohappy:
I'm taking care of the "tomorrow me":thumbsup:
Drinkin won't help a damn thing! Will only make me sick for DAYS and that ugly, spacey dumb feeling-no thanks!Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! So easy to feel gratitude today!
An easy thing, Oh Power Divine,
To thank Thee for these gifts of Thine!
For summer's sunshine, winter's snow,
For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow.
But when shall I attain to this ~
To thank Thee for the things I miss?
~Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823 - 1911)
This is the first stanza only of the poem, The Things I Miss. I have loved this poem ever since my mother shared it with me at Thanksgiving time 20 years ago now. She found it in the Sunday Magazine of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, [MENTION=17632]Mr Vervill[/MENTION]. I know one thing we all are thankful that we miss....
Dill
Dont forget, you can: start late, start over, be unsure, try and fail AND STILL SUCCEED!
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Thank you so much for everyone that stopped by to say Happy Thanksgiving. :thanks:
We just had our little meal. I make a southern style dressing - cornbread, toast, ground beef & sausage (veggie of course), celery, onion, pepper, sage and keep adding veggie broth to keep it moist. Cook in the oven for a couple hours. I don't know how to describe it but my family has bugging me for a month if I was going to cook today or not. LOL So I made it - I tried to take a picture to show you but it really does NOT look appetizing. :rotlf:
Dill - thank you for sharing that stanza of the poem. You are so right about what I am thankful is missing today. How many of these did I prepare while I was drunk?
I hope that everyone had a wonderful day filled with lots of love & laughter. :heartbeat:"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.".....Carol Burnett
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AF - 7-27-15Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
I am new here, not sure where to post. I have been AF since 11/11. Was not looking forward to the holidays and was not disappointed. I have four children. Their father was emotionally abusive and after 25 years of marriage I found out he had had several affairs and had a child with another woman when my oldest son was 2. I had three more children with him as he kept his secret. He basically terrorized me for 2 years before I could finally divorce him. True to him, I am an object for him to demoralize and destroy. I know because I was the second wife and I know what he did to his first wife, even decades after they divorced. Of course my drinking did not help but it numbed the pain. Now he is "domestic partner" to a woman who was my vanpool driver while I was divorcing him. She committed insurance fraud with my kids and I reported it so they want nothing more than to destroy me and turn my kids away from me. My ex even told me he would. Last year it was so hectic during the holidays I told my kids to forget about fitting me in on the holiday. I told them we would plan the day after or the weekend after and cook something "anti-turkey". It was prime rib. They LOVED it! I suppose my ex found out because my kids went to my ex's family yesterday for Thanksgiving and I just learned that they were invited over to my ex's house for another dinner tonight. Now I don't know when to plan my dinner between traveling needs for my daughter and working needs for my oldest son. I may not get a Thanksgiving this year. I avoided the holiday because I did not want just 1-2 hours with my kids. Now my ex is trying to squeeze me out even after the holiday. I KNOW he is doing this with my destruction on his mind, not putting his kids first. If he had his kids as a priority, he would be willing to share time with the mother of his children, no matter what his feelings were towards me. He is a cheating, lying, sneaky snake in the grass. But I dare not say anything to my kids, my daughter would defend him to the end because he has her ear. I HATE HOLIDAYS!! Oh, did I mention I get the youngest two and I support them and do for them, provide their health insurance and their father contributes NOTHING! Sorry, just had to get that off my back, either that or run to the liquor store. Thanks for listening (or reading). Rant over.Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Welcome Fall,wow that's a lot going on! Good you vented here instead of running to the liquor store,rant anytime you need to,glad to have you aboard
I have too much shit to do today and tomorrow to drink:sohappy:
I'm taking care of the "tomorrow me":thumbsup:
Drinkin won't help a damn thing! Will only make me sick for DAYS and that ugly, spacey dumb feeling-no thanks!Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Group conversation going on with my kids on how they can "fit me in" with work, travel and their dad who they can't say no to, they are not allowed. I think I will opt out of Christmas. I know that is what my ex wants but I am a nonconfrontational person. So don't like this. The way I see it there are only three options. He dies, problem solved; I die, problem solved; my kids draw the line with their dad, problem solved; no other options that I can see. I have given in as far as I can. I can't give in any more other than to die and take away the "mom problem"Comment
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Sorry, did not mean that to sound like I am suicidal. I am not. I just feel out of options as far as having a relationship with my kids and dealing with my ex.Comment
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Reach out to the folks here.....they are great!! They don't even pay me to say that!!
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Hi [MENTION=24081]Falldown7timesstandup8[/MENTION] - I hope I typed that right. Welcome. First of all - CONGRATULATIONS on not drinking. Second of all - I am so sorry that you are going thru all of this. That is absolutely rotten. It is amazing to me how people use their children to get back at an ex. I've actually seen it in my own family. I hope your kids will see it for what it is and realize what he is doing. But, I am so glad you came here to vent. Great Job - Sorry it took me so long to get here. Thank goodness that Jude was around."Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.".....Carol Burnett
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AF - 7-27-15Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Falling, I am so sorry your holidays was so distressing. Your situation sounds so difficult. I'm glad you didn't let it cause you do drink!
Welcome to MWO!Dill
Dont forget, you can: start late, start over, be unsure, try and fail AND STILL SUCCEED!
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
Vent away Fall, tha's a lot going on. Glad you came here instead of the liquor store. I'm sorry you're going through this.Comment
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Re: One Step at a Time - November 2017
[MENTION=7944]dill[/MENTION], my first job was delivering the Plain Dealer, lol!Comment
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