Happy Thanksgiving

[dominosarah]

From my house to yours may your day be peaceful and content~~~~~~~~sara

[ibizan]

oh yes bawling beats brawling anyday!my dad was a good provider for all 6 of us...a highly respected cardiologist who had quite a practice and started the first intensive care unit for cardiac patients in 1952 in the town i grew up in.He was a perfectionist a hard worker...he drank as hard as he worked......i remember him coming home throwing back a few glasses of homemade POTENT wine...a few shots of Jack and out the door he flew to get on his tractor and till the garden.. one of his passions.He was a true ethnic guy..parents emigrated to USA from Yugoslavia as kids.He knew the meaning of hard work...and he could be hard on us kids..sometimes too hard.....but we knew he loved us and I know he misses us as we miss him i hear him telling us to keep pressing 4ward...but his body wore out and he had to leave.Ah yes the Living Years!sigh!u bring back good loving memories Rod!

[rod44]

Yes I to believe in divine intervention......my dad did not drink, he raised his family singlehanded as our mum passed away when we were all very young....i too miss my dad at times but know he is with me guiding me on my sober journey, he would be very proud today....it is good to have happy memories

Thanks Sara, hey stop that bawling lol....bawling beats brawling any day

Ray

[ibizan]

aha what a long term memory i have...a reward of sobriety!Living Years won song of the year award at the American Grammy awards in 1990!i just re-read the lyrics......Mike Rutherford wjo wrote that musta had quite the relationship with his dad......sure do miss mine at this time of year...hard to believe that it is coming up on my dad being gone for 4 years now.i think of him too when that song comes on the radio!

[ibizan]

i believe in divine intervention from above...not always from the Creator necessarily ..i feel my dad words..i hear them in my heart and soul......i LOVE that song....Living Years i know it won an award many years ago when it was made....and a well deserved one.My dad drank and he drank a LOT it changed his personality and caused friction tween he and my mom...he stopped drinking when i went to inpatient....my mom told me u saved his life.....i know he is proud of me from above as well!

[dominosarah]

Well now you 2 have me bawling........You have both made your parents so proud~~~~~~sara

[rod44]

I was not sober when my dad passed away, it was his dying wish that I would get sober. it took a year for his wish to come true but it did....

When ever I hear that song The Living Years by Mike & The Mechanics it brings a tear to my eye..... I did give up...I did give in....many times... I thought this was my destiny, my faith. It was not I truly believe my decision in the course of my life to stop drinking as I was happy in the misery that was my life, I knew no better. It took some thing extraordinary to get me to seek help because asking for help was some thing I did not do, I feel he had some part to play, and for that I am and will be forever grateful to him

Ray

[ibizan]

thank u rod...every time i drive away from her my head spins with memories of what once was.....and having to accept that that will never be again..the past is past...and this thing called life and the ageing process and all that comes with it with elderly parents ..my dad gone in 06.....but such a moment like that goes down in the history of my brain.....a treasured moment of recovery 4 me!and now home to reflect upon it and enjoy the company of my 2 greyhounds and 4 cats of which i am thankful for.....the bastions of my recovery as well!:)

[rod44]

Thanks for sharing. That is so sweet and touching...
Bless you and your mom, have a good day

Ray

[ibizan]

i have to share this...it is so touching.My mom who is 91 has Lewy Body Dementia and has been in assisted living an hour from me for the past 3 years.When i went to inpatient in 1983 she and my brother drove 2 hours one way for family education weekly while i was there.Today i had lunch with her...she has grown more delusional but at times very with it and funny! and she says to me I have something small for u.....it isn't much but i want u to know u r the sunshine of my life.....and i know what a journey recovery has been for u these past 26 years..so on the window sill is something for u!On the sill was a box filled with silk yellow mums at the bottom and in the center a tall b-utiful yellow live mum.She will never know how BIG this is to me...how she touched my soul and heart...and how i will have the silk flower for years to come and press the live one when it passes.She always remembers my sobriety date.....always!I am blessed and thankful for a mother like her.....and thankful for this forum and u ppl in it!hope all of u here had a good day!:)

[boogieman]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and please be safe out there! GM

[dominosarah]

Glad to hear you are all well.....I am off to my daughters house for dinner today.  This is the first year in a long time i am not having dinner at my house.....bet i will still have to do the dishes!!!!!!!!!  LOL              sara

[ibizan]

oh ok!thought u did...well u been getting healing prayers in advance!:)glad u r enjoying ur sister!

[rod44]

did not have it yet.....

been down with my sister for a few days, lol it was soooo enjoyable to get away and spend time with her and her family......

ray

[ibizan]

Being sober and clean is a committment and a gift we gave to ourselves...so thankful for all the recovery roads and help out there thru the years..and thankful for u2 that help in this forum!God Bless You both.....Rod how r u healing up from that surgery?

[rod44]

Hey Sara I hope you have a good day and we sure have some thing to be thankful for not just today but every day we remain sober....
Thanksgiving is something we don't celebrate here but I will be thinking of ye all Tomorrow....

Ray