Addiction

      I'll never understand how people can let their addictions control their lives.

      Whether it's cigarettes, drugs or alcohol, how can you let a substance control your life or determine your decisions?

     More importantly, these addictions keep you from being a significant part of your child's life.  

      Drug addiction has become an epidemic.  It's so hard for me to believe that babies are left in the hospital because their parents are too consumed by their addictions to take care of them, or that a parent would go three years with little or no contact with their child.

      I look at my beautiful, smart little girl and cannot imagine a day without seeing or talking to her, and I definitely cannot imagine letting an addiction consume and control my life so much it takes away from my time with her.

      People's priorities amaze me.  Some people are so selfish they do not realize how their choices often affect much more than just their own lives.
     

"Control your own destiny, or someone else will."

-Jack Welch