Hand-Me-Downs are Magical

If you were to look around our home, our yard, our kids, you would find so many gifts.  So many items that were generously given to us by our families and our friends.  It's shocking really, how much of our lives are supplemented, bolstered, held up by our friends and families. That extends far beyond …

On Days When Sobriety is REALLY HARD

You know the days.  They don't have to be anything monumentally terrible. They always say, "it's a broken shoe lace that will get you", meaning, it's the little things. It's not somebody dying or being diagnosed with a terrible disease necessarily that causes us to fall off the rails. I've been doing this a while …

MINE – Addressing Sharing with Toddlers

Welp.  We had a good run.  We had a run with no "MINE" (until they could speak out loud) and no real problems with sharing.  The occasional tussle or smack to the head and a few bites.  Other than that, they've been content to share their stuff.  To share their food (well, mostly). To share …