I woke up 10 minutes after my usual Sunday OA meeting started with Child3 requesting pancakes. I decided to take this as a sign that i needed the lie-in more than a meeting and that it wasn’t a disastrous start to the day!

I also realised that just because the kids were having pancakes didn’t mean i had to have them, so i had my usual breakfast smoothie. Another realisation i had today was that it has been 3 weeks on this journey, and not once has a child asked me to bake cakes. Weekends were synonymous with cake baking and I realise now that this was more for me than them – a bit like how i used to make everyone drink more than they wanted to!

other than that, nothing really to report. I ate sensibly and sanely. I was busy all day – went for a bike ride, sorted out a load of clothing donations for the Ukrainians, put some stuff on Vinted, did a couple of loads of washing, cooked a Sunday roast. And no negative thoughts – i was just engrossed in my tasks.

What’s funny is that a week ago a sober friend posted a Thich Nhat Hanh quote about washing the dishes to wash the dishes that i couldn’t quite grasp at the time he posted it. Plus he’s usually quite facetious so I couldn’t work out if he’d posted it seriously or not! Then today i started another 12 step book that i think is my favourite: The alternative 12 steps: a secular guide to recovery, written by 2 women and they quoted that quote to explain Step 2 and finding spiritual resources in the most mundane tasks. A perfect bit of synchronicity!

More on step 2 tomorrow 😉