An awesome man passed away today.........

So this morning I found out my great uncle Ken passed away. He was 96 years old. This man was one of the five families who took in one of my mom and her four siblings. It's amazing to hear of a family who wanted to the kids to leave close together so they could see each other. My uncle was a really awesome man who worked hard and still into his 80s worked on the family farm. My thoughts today are how precious life is and how much you should tell your family you love them.

Well it's been just a few days over the year mark

Life is amazing!!!!!!!! I hit one year of total soberity on Friday March 12th. I spent the day with a few awesome people. I went with my friend Deb (she is the pastor at the church where I lead the community youth group) to Dr. Bob's House (we also had breakfast before hand). It is the home of one of the co-founders of AA. It truely was an awesome experience. On the way to the house I tried to reflect on each of the 12 steps as I went up (and yes there really are 12 steps leading up to the house). Once in the house and I went inside a guy stuck out his hand and shook mine and said welcome home. Never when I was drinking was I ever welcomed let along welcomed home. We toured the house and saw a movie. It was an amazing trip. Then I went to my parents for a few and then went and spent the evening and night with my friend Amy and her two kids. We had dinner and then I went to a meeting. After the meeting I went back to her house and took my Wii with me and we had a blast. The next day I went to lunch with friends and got an awesome fortune...... A solid challenge will bring forth your finest abilities (kind of perfect). I then went to an activity..... I had a really good talk with a friend who got me to see what I need to look at and so i'm in the process of looking at it. Yesterday I went to church and heard a great message and then went back over and saw Amy. I went home and then went to a meeting where I chaired and also went over my 11th step with my sponsor. Today I had another blood count down and it is finally going up and not down so the iv iron is working...... I had a reaction last weds and spent 3 and a half hours in the er to rule out a heart attack........ Oh well life is just what you make it and today it's awesome!

The year is just about up

Wow hard to believe a year ago at this time I was struggling to think if being sober was even worth it or for that fact if dying wouldn't have been a better option for me. I'm grateful that in just 7 short days I will have 1 year of total soberity. It's been an amazing journey full of self discovery and new insights on life. I'm truely grateful to have grown in my relationship with a God of my own understand. I'm still going to treatment but you know what that's ok because there are still things that I need to work through. Life is amazing that's all I can say. So yesterday I started a new class through treatment called Play Theraphy for Adults. In my internships in college I did play therapy with children and so I wasn't sure what to think about this class. It was actually a really cool class and I can't wait to go back next week. This week it was a team building exercise where we were split into 3 (2 people) groups. We were given a paper bag filled with straws, tape, and a ruler. Our goal was to build the tallest freestanding tower out of the materials given. Well for the first part of the activity my partner and I were aloud to talk to each other but half way through we were given a piece of paper from the city counseler member and ours said that our union was on strike and we couldn't talk to each other. YUCK at first we were at lost on what to do but we quickly regrouped and were able to communicate with motions and facial expressions. We were the group that won. The other groups had different messages but no other group was not aloud to talk. This made me think that in recovery I'm not always able to get ahold of other people but that I can always go to God and talk to him. Other things going on this month are I'm celebrating next friday by going to Dr/ Bob's House with a friend for my one year, I giving my first lead in AA at the end of the month, and also I'm singing Palm Sunday plus throw in ROCK group stuff and more iv iron and it's pretty full. Life is a journey!