December 18th, 2009

Today is Friday Dec...18th...2009.
My mother and brother and sister-in-law had my son drop off Christmas presents since I refuse to go to my mother's house. It was nice of them to give us some gifts but it does not have the same meaning it did when my Dad was alive. It seems like they are doing it because it is something that they are suppose to do not something that they want to do.
Life is changing around me. I have great friends and other non-toxic family members and 2 of course my wonderful dogs.
Going to Texas this year from Christmas. Gong to be with my husband's family. My mother-in-law is getting up in years and she deserves to have her whole family around her at Christmas. We are bringing my step-son back from Texas. I have had problems with him in the past but it is the past and since I now know what I am dealing with with my mother I have come to understand why I was angry for so many years. I am becoming the person that I want to be. I am a worthwhile, caring, decent human being that has a great capacity for compassion and love. My mother is a mean, hateful, vengeful, unhappy being. I am not her scapegoat anymore. She will have to find a new one now because this one is moving on.
I went No Contact July 14, 2009 and have no plans to change that.
Life does not have to be miserable and I am determined to make it as happy as I can.
Denver