Good morning everyone!
I hope you are all well and happy after the weekend! Onya Popeye! You did really well!!!
I had the kind of weekend where I had to find strength I didn't know I possessed! It was soooo hard not to have wine!!!! I JUST WANTED IT!!! I had to really get my head around why I am doing this and really realise that I have the choice. Have wine... don't have wine. Take the consequences (good or bad). I ended up choosing not to have wine (G-d knows how) and now I have the good consequence........ feeling great today.
On Sunday, instead of obsessing about buying a bottle of wine I packed the kids and dog up and headed off for the beach. My husband was busy with his "man" things in his "man shed" so it was just us. We walked so far along the beach we discovered a really exciting expanse of rocks with little rockpools all over. It was beautiful. The kids were so excited. We found some really beautiful shells and even brought a hermit crab home. Now, if this had been a normal, in my past life (two weeks ago), Sunday, husband and I would have been sitting outside drinking wine. Nothing would have been done or discovered. Instead, we had a lovely afternoon out, came home and cooked a really nice Mexican meal which we all shared, got all organised and woke up this morning fresh as a daisy, all ready for the new day. As I was driving to school this morning my head felt clear, the sun was shining and I felt really really happy!
Up until two weeks ago I would have just written Mondays off.
PS Still haven't actually worn my groovy new Slazenger walking gear....but the thought's there.
I hope you are all well and happy after the weekend! Onya Popeye! You did really well!!!
I had the kind of weekend where I had to find strength I didn't know I possessed! It was soooo hard not to have wine!!!! I JUST WANTED IT!!! I had to really get my head around why I am doing this and really realise that I have the choice. Have wine... don't have wine. Take the consequences (good or bad). I ended up choosing not to have wine (G-d knows how) and now I have the good consequence........ feeling great today.
On Sunday, instead of obsessing about buying a bottle of wine I packed the kids and dog up and headed off for the beach. My husband was busy with his "man" things in his "man shed" so it was just us. We walked so far along the beach we discovered a really exciting expanse of rocks with little rockpools all over. It was beautiful. The kids were so excited. We found some really beautiful shells and even brought a hermit crab home. Now, if this had been a normal, in my past life (two weeks ago), Sunday, husband and I would have been sitting outside drinking wine. Nothing would have been done or discovered. Instead, we had a lovely afternoon out, came home and cooked a really nice Mexican meal which we all shared, got all organised and woke up this morning fresh as a daisy, all ready for the new day. As I was driving to school this morning my head felt clear, the sun was shining and I felt really really happy!
Up until two weeks ago I would have just written Mondays off.
PS Still haven't actually worn my groovy new Slazenger walking gear....but the thought's there.
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