Addiction is a Family disease… do you know what that means? Being honest, when I first heard it, I thought it meant it was hereditary… you know- passed down in the family. If one person had it, chances were that someone else was going to have it too. Made total sense to me. Even though that is true, it is not what is meant by “It’s a family disease”. Addiction not only affects the addict, addiction effects the entire family. It...
In my world, we take days one at a time. Literally. I do my best to appreciate each day for what it is… If I am having a good day and someone says, “How are you? I will respond, “Today is a good day”. We celebrate the good days, because, well, let’s be honest, not all days are good. Today, my friends, today is a good day. Today a young man is facing his demons head on, seeking help for his...
God works. He is working even when you don’t want him to, in ways you can never imagine. He does things you are excited about and he does things you might not like. When Alec went to live with him I was not happy about it (well, there’s the understatement of a lifetime) but I knew I had to keep going. How was I going to do this? Why did I have to? Because of my faith in my...
The other night Jeff and I walked passed a skate park while we were on vacation… We stopped and watched a group of guys about Alec’s age skate for a long time…. I kept thinking “Alec could do that “ and “Oh, he could do that too” and then I thought, I bet he would love those stairs, and that rail…. and oh look, Alec had those green shoes too… I wish I could remember what that trick was called…...
I’m crazy… I mean really crazy. As I raised my first born, Alec, I seemed to have “wish his life away”. Not really but all of us mama’s do it… we say, “I wish he could hold his own bottle.” Or how about “I will be so glad when he can do his homework on his own”. And are you ready for the worst one… “I cannot wait until he can drive his own self around, I feel like a...