Thanks to my beautiful Lacey, the door was opened for me to meet a group of ladies who helped me survive the early years of Lacey's recovery from addiction. Her AA birthday is December 29, 2001, so this coming December she will be celebrating 8 years! And let me tell you, we celebrate every birthday. We make it a big deal and make dinner reservations and Dina, Jamie, Aaron, Lacey, Scott and I all go out to celebrate this great day.
So for me, it was in April of 2002 that I first went to the Serenity Family Group meetings where I met these beautiful women who were going through the same recovery process with either a spouse, son or daughter. We have a lot in common in that we all live with a recovering addict and let me tell you in the early years it is not an easy task! We were led by a wonderful counselor named Gary and then after about 1 1/2 years we had another counselor named Lloyd. Both pushed us to look deep into ourselves and to be accountable for our own feelings but also to be kind and caring to ourselves.
We still get together several times during the year, not to "work the program", but to renew our friendships and to hear all the good stories that are happening in each of our lives. So far, everyone from that group is still 'drug' free just like Lacey. What a testament to all of them for their hard work, and to each of us for our hard work to achieve a life of serenity!
Front row, left to right, Colleen, Judy (her birthday today and reason for our gathering!), Julie.
Back row, Gerry, me, Kathleen and Betty (our hostess!) one person not pictures is Toni, she was in Hawaii with some of her family!
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