@M-be-free49
I’m grateful Emm for who you are.
A beautiful shining star.
You gives us all hope every night
that we will all do this sober thing again tomorrow.
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You’re too sweet! Thank you Eric!
And thank you for all the love and support you spread around this forum. You’ve been an amazing asset to our TS family.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. 
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Merry Christmas to my new gratitude buddy.
I’m so happy you got to see your parents. Thanks for all your support on this thread.
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awe Eric you have made so many of my days in all sincerity. I wish you and yours to be fully blessed now and always. I can’t believe that I found this place. So greatful. I never would have thought that I could develop a real friendship with someone online or pen-pal style is what my grandma would’ve called it. I honestly hope we can continue moving forward together on here and sports talk and photos and wow. this app is really great when you have people like yourself and @M-be-free49 @Lisa07 @anon79808082 @CapriciousCapricorn @Dragonflygirl82 @Truckinmonster21 @Tommo @Charlie_C @anon60334405 @Mno who sincerly want to do and be better. I know i could and probably should list even more people. Something I have thought is what a treat it would be to someday come play the golf course you live on and then surprise the shit out of you with a big hug and hello and dinner after. I’m a dreamer 
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continued from above @RosaCanDo @anon27760155 @Joy @Dolse71 @Fargesia_murielae
Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas
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Awww, thank you, Eric! I think you just made my heart grow three sizes! 
I’m so super grateful for you on this forum. I can’t tell you how many times your posts have put the high octane back into my almost empty soul tank. Just cuz you’re graduating soon and all (1 year!), promise you’ll still eat lunch with the rest of us? 
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I’m grateful to God
I’m greatful for my recovery
I’m greatful for my family
I’m greatful for my friends
I’m greatful for my health
I’m greatful for TS
Now here we go…I’m greatful it’s Christmas and I’m greatful that I have a laptop so I can join my parents, sisters, neices and brothers in law on a video call at ten it’s twenty after eight now. I’m greatful that after that I am going to hang out with my housemates. I’m grateful that after that im off to wayside where I already prepped dinner and that I just get to go there and hang out and help eat the two 17 pound turkeys. I’m greatful that I heard from many family and friends already today. I’m greatful particularly that Shannon and I already talked and are both excited for our date on Sunday. I’m greatful that I will get to sit with the cat on my lap when I visit wayside today. I’m greatful for the fact I woke up early enough to get my morning routine in before my ten am family time. I’m greatful that the holidays tend to bring out the best in people. I would be exceptionally greatful if we as a whole could keep that going.
God bless you all. &
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I’m grateful it’s Christmas morning and I don’t have a hangover. No I don’t !!
I’m grateful I’m sober this Christmas.
I’m grateful I did not use Christmas as a hall pass to get hammered all week.
I’m grateful for all the support and love here at TS. Especially this Christmas.
I’m grateful for my family.
I’m grateful for all the Christmases I had as a kid growing up. My parents were great!! I’m grateful I can still remember my childhood Christmases.
I’m grateful I had wonderful grand parents on my mother’s side. Didn’t know the other ones they could have been wonderful too.
Grateful for my Costa Rican coffee beans this morning and the smell of bacon.
I’m grateful last years left over xtra large size bottle of Bailey’s Irish Cream still sits in my wine room untouched by me. Good bye old friend. 
I’m grateful I don’t have 6 or 7 bottles of champagne sitting in the fridge for Christmas thinking that will be enough to get me to New Years, only to have to still go to the liquor store to buy more for New Years.
Grateful I don’t have to plan my life around buying booze, only to have to buy more booze.
Grateful my daughter-in-law’s sister who is a nurse got vaccinated yesterday as she is spending her Christmas at the hospital taking care of people.
God bless the healthcare workers.
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Yesss! I add this (and the thing you said about trying to make sure I’d bought enough prosecco to last until New Years, though I always back at the wine shop before Dec.31 
!) to my list toooooo!
Well said, gratitude pal…
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Today I’m am greatful for all of you. I would have drank if I didn’t have all of your advice, suggestions and powerful examples. Today was a good day and a great Christmas
So for that gift I say thank you
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Dec.25
I’m very grateful I woke up early this morning (when it was still so dark) with the same happiness and excitement I woke up with yesterday. I’m also very grateful I fell back asleep!
I’m grateful for the dear pals, my mom, and old family friends and relatives I’ve had phone and zoom chats with yesterday and already today (98% beautiful, and about 2% had me mentally uncorking one of those bottles of prosecco of yesteryear ).
I’m grateful for the pot of homemade apple cider I have simmering on my stove for 3hrs - makes my wee home smell lovely, and will be a treat when I come in from my wintery hike.
I’m so very grateful to be sober. I’m grateful for all the support I have on this forum to be sober, to stay sober - and for the support to face the stuff that had me filling up my glass all the time. I’m grateful to see how much my glass is already full of the stuff of life. So much beauty, no room for alcohol in that glass anymore…
As always, I’m grateful to my dear M and D, for the life they gave me, and who they were and always will be to me.
I’m grateful for another day.
Merry Christmas, dear sober pals! 
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Grateful for my sense of humor.
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I’m grateful to be feeling really good the morning after Christmas. Sober. Not hungover. Yay me 
I’m grateful we had a nice Christmas just the 8 of us. My wife. 2 dogs. And 4 cats. It wasn’t very exciting but it was very nice.
Grateful we had a family zoom call. That was nice.
I’m grateful I also had my TS family for Christmas.
Even though my sister could call me once and awhile, I didn’t play that game in my head. (But for a brief moment,) If I want to talk to her and wish her a merry Christmas, does it really matter who calls who? And for that I am grateful I called my sister yesterday. And as usual we had a nice Holiday conversation.
I’m grateful I haven’t heard any stupid Christmas music in the stores all Christmas season, I bet it started in September. Because of the pandemic I don’t go to the stores anymore.
Grateful for instacart.
Kinda grateful Christmas is over but not in a Grinch way.
Grateful I’m always willing to workout that gratitude muscle on a daily basis.
Grateful I been sober through the Holidays for the first time since I can remember. Bring it on New Years!!! I’m ready for ya!
Grateful we learned that if we put our advent calendar away one piece at a time, one day at a time starting today, it will take us to Inauguration Day. I may really need y’all’s help that day. ODAAT Eric.
Grateful for all the healthcare workers.
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Echo that mind you last year’s holidays I made it through only to slip in early January. I was very fresh out of a twenty five year habit (s)last year so it was still a dark and dreary holiday. I am very greatful to say pandemic or not it was/is the best holiday season I’ve had in a very long time. I’m greatful to say that TS plays a big part in that. I’m greatful to God. I’m greatful for my recovery. I’m greatful for my family. I’m greatful for my friends. I’m greatful that I chose to keep moving forward as I’m off to wayside today to make dinner and attend NA. I’m greatful for the 12 steps. I’m greatful for music as it works it’s magic this Christmas season and all the time. I’m greatful for humor and laughter.
Btw if you haven’t been told today never forget you’re awesome. God bless you all. &
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I’m very grateful for waking up sober and not hungover today! I’m grateful for my job that, although is stressful, challenges me. I’m grateful for my coworkers. I’m grateful for the few close friends that I can confide in when things get rough. I’m grateful for a quiet Christmas season.
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Dec.26
I’m so grateful to have had a sober, unchallenging, completely devoid of triggers (almost), christmas day. It’s not that I’m glad there’s a pandemic, but sobriety is easier to maintain living in an M-bubble!
All that said, I used to be an accomplished alone drinker - i thought I made it look so functional. A glass of wine while cooking, reading, etc, (even doing laundry, lol). And now, I’m just so damned grateful that I really prefer my own company when I’m sober. Sure, I get cravings. But man, I’m glad I don’t have to hang out with drinking M anymore…
I’m grateful for the socked-in white snowy foggy day here - looks beautiful and will be a crisp beautiful walk later.
I’m learning to be grateful for things that aren’t picture perfect, because life isn’t. Like families. Everything can be an invitation to learn more about ourselves, and maybe we need messy situations to learn these things. Slowly, soberly.
I’m grateful for the food in my frig, the sweet tunes on, the delish coffee beside me, the socks on my feet. (confession: substitute addictions are coffee beans and merino wool socks)
Always grateful to my dear M and D for all they are.
Grateful for another day.
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“It’s not that I’m glad there’s a pandemic, but sobriety is easier to maintain living in an M-bubble! ”
Unfortunately 
I think this has really helped me a lot too. I feel like I’m cheating sometimes because I’m really not tempted by nice restaurant menus and bars and wine list. But I do want to go out to eat so badly.
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It will happen again, those dinners out. And I’ve been to these restaurants with non-drinkers wayyy pre-pandemic, and they are always offered an array of sparkling waters and various AF beverages for each course.
And that will be you. 
And I’d be willing to bet you enjoy your meal more, just like everything you enjoy more now already.
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Well its 7am and I’m trying to figure out how to be greatful that I woke up at 6:15? I’m greatful for being up early since I have been getting up around 10:00 and feeling guilty and a little defeated. I’ve been saying it would be nice to get into the routine of sleeping from 11-7 which I was thinking in my addict procrastination kind of way I’ll start in the new year😏 I’m greatful to God. I’m greatful for my recovery. I’m greatful for my family. I’m greatful for my friends. I’m greatful for my health. I’m greatful that I slept well. I’m greatful for the coffee I’m drinking. I’m greatful that I can make Sunday morning breakfast instead of brunch. I’m greatful I heard from my mom who sent an email already today. I’m greatful that I don’t live alone and hear my housemate coming downstairs. I’m greatful for my headphones and music that helps to fuel my day. I’m greatful for TS.
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