I want to scream from the roof tops how wonderful life can be!

I love it! I really love it. One of the cool things about Oklahoma is the rain. It doesn’t play around down here…when it rains it pours! The house is quite, the animals all made it in safe and sound, all five cats and two dogs. I never meant to end up with so many cats but Cinderellie, the momma, who was pregnant when we got her, had six kittens and so far we’ve only found a home for one. I just can’t bear to take them to the pound. So, here I sit. Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself turning into “The old cat lady”. Wow, but so-be-it. I just got done wrapping Sweet Sarah’s b-day gifts. I’m getting ready to work some more on her “Indian Girl” costume. I can’t think of one other thing I’d rather be doing or anywhere else I’d rather be. It’s official… I’m screaming again!

He’s been working pretty steady for the last three weeks. (thank you God!) We went and got all of sweet Sarah’s b-days gifts and had a wonderful day together. I decided that I would swing by Sue’s after bringing Kacey home from school. Since we are down to one vehicle I don’t get to see her very often anymore. Once it was time to go I discovered that all I wanted to do was to go back home again to be with my family and enjoy the nagchampa that my sweet husband bought me today. Yeah, I’d say we are doing better! Woo-hoo!

I decided I needed to change that. True, things have been pretty tough but there have been wonderful things that have been happening. There have been blessings that have been received! My children are healthy and happy and bless me with their laughter every day. Prayers that are being answered. The work is starting to come in again. I am getting time to be by myself again to contemplate on things that need contemplating and for reading and 43things. Communication is starting to flow again in areas that had been quite sluggish. There has been a great deal of patience shown and gained. There have been some lines drawn in the dirt that were long over-due.(Am praying every moment that I will be strong enough to stand by that line.) Not to mention the fact that I am still here, breathing and walking through this world. I have been given the courage to confront myself. I have been given the wisdom to learn that of the four areas of responsibility (1.What we know. 2. Attitude. 3. Action and 4. Results.) that I can only control the first three. However, if I keep on learning, keep a good attitude, and strive to act on my goals every day that the results will take care of themselves. The scary part is that if I stop learning, have a crappy attitude and do not act the results will still take care of themselves. So even though I might not be screaming from the roof tops how wonder life can be I’m happy to say that I’m still yelling it!

it was a Sunday. Sweet Sarah and Daddy were visiting me and we found this baby turtle. It was so cute and only the size of a fifty-cent coin. They ended up bringing it home and we named it Bill W. after the founder of AA. Now he’s the size of a large orange. We decided that we needed to release him so that he can live a good life, mate, all the wonderful things that turtles do. I got online and researched the best way to go about that. It turns out that: A) you are not supposed to take them from the wild and B) turtles have a very strong homing signal and that if you release them more then several hundred feet from their home they will just wander the rest of their life trying to find their way home. Well, that would just be too sad! I called my counselor and told her our plight and asked her for permission to bring Bill W. home. My sweet Sarah and I brought him home the other day. On the way there we smiled and talked about how happy Bill would be to be back with his family. We talked about how his homing signal must be going off the closer we got to his birth place. It was a happy story to tell and seemed to make people smile. She was so brave and didn’t cry at all. While we were there we talked with a family that had a member checking in that day. Sharing with them that I too had been a client there and that if he was serious, stayed out of the drama and kept his head focused on working the program that he could have a happy ending. I shared that I had a happy ending. I was so glad that I was not at that point. I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. SOBRIETY ROCKS!

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Yes, it’s true. It’s good to be me! And it still nice to know that there are not many like me. I’m unique!

“those who bring the sunshine, cannot hide it from themselves”
Can I get an amen?
AMEN!

Why? Yesterday Michael came home with a box of smoking pills. Today he came home with three perfect roses and two boxes of Nag Champa (only my favorite smell ever!) Yeah, it’s official; He loves me! Yeah!!!

We got up and Sarah dressed herself, poured her own cereal and brushed her own teeth and hair. I got the kids to school and went back to bed! I slept so peacefully. I actually remember stretching a few times and thinking to myself “This is so nice!”. I stayed in bed till 10:00am. Got up and had a cup of coffee and am taking the rest of the morning to get caught up on my goals. Might even try to get some of them done. What a wonderful day to be me.

I first started this goal when we decided to make the commitment to put Michael through college. Now that it’s over with I have decided that I will leave this goal on my list. Why, you ask? Because things are only going to get better from here on out!

So much has happened in the time that I was not allowed to log-in here at 43 things!
1. MICHAEL IS DONE WITH COLLEGE!
2. HE IS GRADUATING THIS FRIDAY!
3. ONE HALF OF MY IN-LAWS WILL BE HERE TOMORROW!
4. HE ALREADY GOT A JOB!
5. I’m almost overwhelmed by trying to catch up on everything!