New Year's Resolutions

I hate them.

But every single, cotton-picking year, I make them.

Usually, I stick to them longer than your average Joe.  And usually they have something to do with looking better, eating better, working out more, etc.

But this year I'm making a resolution, well two really, that will make me feel better.  I hope.

And perhaps they will make others around me feel better as well.

#1: Be nicer to my children.  I have become the most impatient, intolerant mom with my kids lately.  I'm down right grumpy, actually.  So I'm going to try extra hard to listen, focus, and not multi-task when I'm with them.  If they need help with something, I will stop and help them.  They will only be little for so long ... they are half-way to 3rd and 1st grades ... and I feel like time is passing so quickly with them now.  Very rarely does K want anything to do with her momma ... which I thought wouldn't happen until she was much older.  Tanner still likes having me around, but he is stuck halfway between being "mommy's baby" and being "daddy's big boy."  And he can't decide which way he wants to lean most of the time.  Bless his little heart.

So I am going to spend every day of the next year being a better mommy to my kids.

Or at lead I'm going to try.

#2:  My reason for writing this right now.  I'm going to start blogging again.  I realize time has again gotten away from me ... so many things have happened in the last six months, both good and bad, and most people have only gotten snippets from Facebook status updates.  So I'm going to start writing again.  Maybe it will help me get my creative juices flowing again.  Or at least I can share all the awesome projects Tim and I have been doing around the house!  Or I can vent and get some feedback from some other people.  Either way, I'm going to start blogging again.

Not every day, mind you.  But I'm going to try.

So there they are.  My New Year's Resolutions for 2012.  Completely unrelated to weight loss.

Hopefully that will make them easier to maintain!! ;)