I have not written for some time. Life has just been full on! For now, so long, until we meet again! May 13, 2015.

The future is bright, the future is sober. I am a forty something, happily married mum of two. On 31 March 2016, after many failed attempts over several years, I finally quit drinking. I started this blog during my second month without alcohol. Now in December 2016,I am approaching 9 months without a drink. Click follow to share my journey. I would love you to join me.

Going to see a counselor. I am stepping up my game. I will go see a counselor today. This is not who I am.

I have a full time, successful, fulfilling career; I have three sons, aged 18, 14 and 11 and two beautiful border collies. I have drunk for almost all of my adult life; through triumphs, tragedies, success and failure; when I have been happy and relaxed, and when I have been stressed. Wine has been my constant companion. Gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of manipulation through persistent denial, misdirec.

There is always this lull between Christmas and New Year that I have never enjoyed. Where the excitment of Christmas has passed but the preperations for New Years Eve are yet to begin. Well this year Chritmas was spent sober. It didnt bother me and it was lovely to have all my family around me. However, boxing day was another matter.

I plan to devote some serious time to my blog and get it going, though.

Wine comes in a glass, right? Starting my battle against the grapes. Day 131, 4ish months? January 10, 2017. I feel like a veteran. Like I am so incredibly solid in this sobriety thing, and I will never falter. In 2014, I went about 4 months without smoking.