This Year Will Be Different

Every year, my New Year's Resolutions go a little something like this.
Dec. 31: I resolve to-
1. Clean up the entire house and always keep it neat and tidy.
2. Remain patient and calm with my children, never raising my voice.
3. Cut out all refined carbs from my diet.

Jan. 1:
I start out cleaning my closet. In five minutes, I am sitting in a pile of old pictures and notes from my BFF from City Park Elementary laughing until I cry.
Within a few hours I have yelled at my children three times and my husband once, because OMG I need chocolate!!!
My diet goes well until, oh, about lunch. Then I dig up every piece that I can find of Christmas, Halloween, and Easter candy (yes, there is still some of that in my house).

This year is going to be different. My resolutions will be a little less constricting and hopefully easier to accomplish. I plan to TOP it off in 2013!
Next year, I resolve to be more:
Thoughtful - Write a note of thanks/encouragement/love to one person every day.
Organized - Execute one project from Pinterest a month to help make my household run smoother. I think I have pinned around 40,000 ideas and have tried 3. So 12 will be quite an accomplishment.
Punctual - This is where the previous two will be useful.

Let's hope this will last past lunchtime tomorrow! :0)

Happy New Year Everyone! May your 2013 be truly blessed!

I Went Straight

I sat at the stoplight. To the right were a gazillion errands- Goodwill, grocery store, Christmas shopping. Straight ahead- the park.
Looking in the rear view mirror, I saw my children, the warm sunshine bathing the tops of their heads. They were quiet, each engrossed in their current obsessions- one on the iPad, one on my phone.
The light turned green.
I went straight.