THE RESOLUTIONS I REALLY WANT TO MAKE … AND KEEP!

We’ve all heard, and I’ve even written, about making New Year’s Resolutions that are small changes, so we don’t give up after a week or a month. But what are the ones that we REALLY wish we could make? And KEEP? That will somehow, magically work? Here are mine:

1. Lose my remaining 18 pounds by the end of the month. And still eat everything I want to eat. In abundance.
   
2. Become the perfect mom, never yelling at my kids, which will turn the boys into the perfect children, always doing what I say the first time, so I don’t have to yell, and so on, and so on, and so on.
   
3. I haven’t printed out any pictures since the first day of kindergarten, and the boys are now in 3rd grade. I’d like to get all those done by the end of this week.
   
4. Have our new website up by tomorrow.
   
5. Have my entire house cleaned and organized by the day after tomorrow.
   
6. Keep it that way all year.
   
7. Learn to salsa dance next weekend.
   
8. Enter the 2010 Olympics as a figure skater. (Does it matter that I can’t stand up on ice skates?)
   
9. Have Karmel Publishing make our first million by April. (After all, we’ll have our new website up by tomorrow, right?)
   
10. Never lose my temper, ever, all year long. (BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!)
    

So, what do you think? Can I do it?

Karen

Thursday Thoughts

I tend to get on edge with my kids when the pressure is on.  My tone of voice gets short, I'm more prone to say,"What do you need?!?!?" instead of "Yes, my love, can Mommy help you with that?" 

After endless pecking (because you know, raising children is a whole lot like being pecked to death by chickens), the buildup finally reaches critical mass. And then I blow. I yell. Their eyes get huge and they take a step back. 

I wonder what would happen if I hugged them every time I wanted to yell?

They would probably look at me and say, Gee, Mom, you sure are huggy today. What's up with THAT?!?!?"

Maybe I'll try it. I'll make it my research project and report my findings in a week or two. Try it with me?

Melissa