Have a Clean and  SOBER and a merry Christmas and a healthy  new year a day at a time.

Lets not forget the reason for the season.

12 TIPS FOR SOBER HOLIDAYS

1. Line up extra activities (help on the phones, speak, empty the ashtrays).

2. Be host to friends, especially newcomers, at home or at a coffee shop.

3. Keep your A.A. telephone list with you at all times.

4. Find out about holiday meetings or celebrations in your local groups.

5. Skip any drinking occasions you're nervous about

6. If there's one you can't skip, take an A.A. friend--or keep candy handy.

7. Don't think you have to stay late (plan an "important date" in advance).

8. Go to church. Any church. And don't forget about extra meetings.

9. Don't sit around brooding; catch up on reading, museums, walks, letters.

10. Don't project about holiday temptations: remember "One day at a time."

11. Even if you cannot give material gifts, enjoy the beauty of holiday love.

12. Carry the message: Give the joy away, and it will be yours to keep.

THE 12 STEPS OF CHRISTMAS

1. Admit you are powerless over Christmas, and that you life has become unmanageable.

2. Believe that a power greater than consumer credit can restore you to sanity.

3. Decide to turn your will and life over to Santa as you understand him.

4. Make a searching and fearless inventory of your material desires.

5. Admit to Santa, to yourself, and to another human being the exact nature of your size, color preferences, and taste in furniture.

6. Allow Santa to remedy all defects of your bank account.

7. Humbly ask Santa to pay off your mortgage.

8. Make a list of everything you want, and be willing to read the instruction manual.