Warning: New Years Resolution Post. Pass it by if you don't want to read another one.
Taking a needed moment to put in my resolutions for this year. Yes everyone puts them up. I need to to keep myself towards my goals. I don't like the way I have become a stressed, overworked, frazzled mom. I need to take a stand against myself and set some rules. The best way to fallow them is to put them out there for others to see. There are a lot, yes but they are realistic ones that will lead to good outcomes.
1. Omit "Hate" from my vocabulary. It's such an awful word. "Don't Care For" or just "no thank you" are so much more pleasant sounding.
2. Try to have more patience and raise my voice less. It's so much easier on everyone to get up close and whisper things anyway ( I think whispering gets my seriousness/ creepy momness across more).
3. Try not to stress over things I can not change. Like how fast the car in front of me is moving or whether they used the near extinct turn signal.
4. Don't sweat the little stuff. Really.
5. Accept that as a working mom, I will not have a perfectly clean house. I MUST learn that and be ok with it.
6. Eat Healthier. Really this isn't a big adjustment. Just eat less cheese. It has snuck into my diet more.
7. Go to bed at a reasonable time. I will wage war on my internal nocturnal clock that has kept me awake until 1am most of my life. I won't say 10 because I need to work my way there. I will say before midnight. I want more energy to have fun and no longer have the option of a midday nap.
8. Stress less about time. I worry to much about getting stuff done on time and run around like a chicken. The fact the school wants us there before the other kids is an unrealistic goal we can't meet. Done.
9. Find the joy in the small things and worry less about the big. A variation on 4, but still worth it's own.
10. Meal time is not a battle ground. Play time is not more important then eating, but we need to find some way to work this a little better.
Love life for what it is not what it could be. I am me, this is my family, this is the way our life is. Take things as they come and roll with it. For life changes everyday and every moment that passes is gone forever.
