I am so grateful to be sober today. I’m grateful for decorating for Christmas over the weekend and for time spent together. I’m grateful for the women’s meeting I had the opportunity to speak at and for hearing a friend speak last night. I’m grateful for holiday movies that make me smile, for how different things are, for being able to show up and for the strength to work through things.
Good morning my friends :) As always, I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! Did anyone else do some holiday decorating this weekend??
I decorated with my favorite person and it was one of those things that was so little but meant the whole world to me. For the past few years I would decorate while drinking a bottle of wine. Or four bottles of wine.
But this year, I spent an extra long time making sure our (fake) tree was perfectly fluffed. The ornaments were placed delicately. We don’t have an angel or star on top but that’s okay because it's perfectly imperfect like the rest of us (for clarity - the lack of angel/star would have previously made me freak out because everything had to appear perfect).
And, we got to put it together after a wonderful breakfast with friends that was after my favorite meeting of the week, the Sunday 10am. Drinking Jane could not even fathom the idea of waking up prior to 3pm on a Sunday.
Which is why I’m also grateful for how different things are. I’m so grateful for my sober life. Every day certainly isn't easy, but being able to soberly celebrate the holidays is a gift to me.
The holidays can also be super challenging. I have a friend who says that Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year is like the Bermuda Triangle and we have to stick together to not get lost in the triangle these next few weeks. But, I’m also so grateful for that fact. That we have each other to lean on.
And as long as we do that, we’ll make it out of the season Merry, Sober and Bright ;) As always, I hope everyone has a wonderful week and I will see you all again on Thursday!
With so much love,
Jane
You are my Christmas miracle it’s a wonderful life indeed xo Tommy
I’m so behind on decorating my tree (I ran out of steam after getting those 20+ trees up at our venue!), but planning to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon catching up on some reading then decorating the tree while half-watching Christmas movies. I haven’t had kids at home for a number of years, but I still put all their old ornaments on--it’s a great time of reflection and gratitude for the blessing of being their mom.