Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
"Mama. What were you doing right now 20 years ago?" That is the question my 8 year old babies asked me this morning after they saw my XX year anniversary coin and we were talking about what it used to be like. "Well, I was likely checking into a hospital." "Why a hospital?""Because when you …
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Early morning January 6th, 2013, we made our way downtown to the hospital. I was fully made up, OF COURSE, because that was my plan and I like a plan. But of course, babies have their own plans. You didn't want to come out. You had been perfectly happy inside my belly for 38 weeks …
There's a format we follow in twelve steps meetings that is based on sharing your story with your drug of choice and it's a pretty basic yet effective story telling tool that goes like this: - What it was like - What happened - What it's like now I thought I could use this format …
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