So the other day while we were driving around looking at people's Christmas lights (yearly Christmas eve tradition), my dad says, "My AA group is going to think I fell off the wagon." (He's missed a couple of meetings because of the holidays and one work-related incident.) Then: "AA isn't doing me any good anyway. I'm going to stop going ( Read more... )

I learned how to bottle wine today. My dad is a big wine drinker, so he ordered two batches of chiraz from one of those places where you bottle it yourself, but he never had the time so my mom and I went down today and did it for him ( Read more... )

I made my dad cry today. And not out of sadness, but from joy.

I don't think that's ever happened in my entire life. Probably not even when I was born.

I feel good.