Hi family, I know its been a while since I have been around here. So I will fill you in, if want to know what I have been doing. Life has just been keeping me busy & away from my home office where this computer is kept! Recovery has been keeping me busy. Work has been keeping me getting paid. My daughter graduated high school in May & shortly there after she moved out & in with her boyfriend, whom we adore! She just started college last week. How blessed we are that we are able to financially help her with that, we have suffered college loans of our own & if possible would like to shelter her from those !! lol  My husband & I celebrated 4 years of recovery/clean time in July within days of each other & that might be the 1 thing I have managed in 20 years to get ahead of him in !!! He has just completed a 16 week course for his real estate licence in 5 weeks & is awaiting notification to take the state exam. I have taken a leap back to school myself & have enrolled in some that classes that will benefit me currently at my job & some that I can take with me in whatever field I find myself in down the road. Computer classes mainly, business management, & food & beverage/hospitality. My older sister is staying with me & has 93 days clean !! She kids around that she is staying in the "Champion Rehab". It is so so so cool to have my sister back in my life again & sort of like a refresher course for me to watch her grow, & struggle, & seek recovery with the vengence of someone desperate to live !! She has been in & out a few times now so she knows the miracle of recovery & the program. I have also had lots of sponsee/sponsor time to work through/with & for that I am always grateful! I havent forgotten about this miracle of people & friends here at this site - I just have to keep doing the next right thing & trust & have faith that everything is happening just as it is supposed to. I recently read a book that said life is always changing; we are always changing. We live in a river of change & a river of change lives within us. Every day we are given a choice: We can relax & float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us, filling our hearts with courage & enthusiasm. If we resist the river, we will feel rankled & tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place. So I have been flowing with the river - not against it.

...peace, shannon