This morning I overslept and had to get up and attend to a child before finishing praying. Tonight I am trying to get to bed early to be able to wake up on time tomorrow.

I am grateful that I got to listen to some parenting programming this morning and I found good information on their website today.

I am grateful that I got to go to our noon meeting and read about tradition 3. I talked about how I read about 4 stages of alcoholism and that 3 of those might not qualify as "real" alcoholics but that all stages could benefit from the program. Therefore, I was glad that the requirement was not that I be a real alcoholic but that I simply have a desire to stop.

I am thinking now that I am also glad that it does say there must be a desire to stop because that draws the only definite qualification necessary.

I guess the 4 stages in the Big Book would be social drinker, moderate, heavy drinker, and then real alcoholic.

This evening I was afraid because my wife is preparing to start working nights. Today I talked to the new guy who has been working 2 jobs now for a long time. I am grateful that I do not have to work 2 jobs right now. I see now that the extra work that I will have to do when my wife works will be a joy compared to working another job.

Thanks be to God.