Here are my top 5 new year resolutions:
(hey, we all make em' and break em' -usually in the first week)
1. Do not cut my daughter's hair.
Ever. No matter how tempted I am. Especially when it's a week before a major holiday in which a zillion pictures will be taken. May this picture be splashed across my mind the second I am tempted to do a little snippy clippy while she is watching Barney. It's never just a snippy clippy. Its a choppy floppy. This year I will take the time to call a professional.
Oh man, I really botched it bad this time - I even tried to put a bow in it to make it look like I purposely pulled it all back but of course she would have none of that!
2. Eat healthy
As in 1500 calories a day healthy for me and my man. We have major weight to lose before our big extended family cruise in June. Oh, and to be healthy enough to keep raising kids for another 18 years. Those two reasons should be flipped in order of importance - but vanity won out for the moment I was writing this.
3. Find new and healthy recipes that my husband and boys will like.
I know this is an extension of number 2 but I need 5 goals to make myself feel like I am really accomplishing something great this year. I swapped turkey bacon for real bacon on Jan 1 and I had no idea it would bring on an hour long interrogation from my sons. Them: "What IS turkey bacon? Now WHAT is turkey bacon? WHAT is THAT in the pan-turkey bacon?" Me: Oh my gosh!!! All I know its 35 calories a slice verses 500 so just eat it already!!!!. Jan 2- I make Weight Watchers Garden Vegetable Soup. I feel really old. I remember my mom making this exact recipe when I was little and I thought it looked and smelled gross. I did not make my boys eat tonight's soup.
4. SLEEP
Meaning: my one year old needs to sleep. Excuse me, I meant my almost 17 month old needs to sleep - more than 3 hours at a time. And quit her 3 a.m. "lets all sit on the couch and watch Barney and eat popcorn till its time for Daddy to get up and drive the school bus." And I bet 99% of you are shaking your heads and saying "just don't get her up, let her cry it out, blah blah blah..." (I am saying the blah, blah, blah with utmost respect :) ) We know all the answers, we just don't do them. What works for almost every other kid on this planet doesn't work for our little E. Except for those parents where Benedryl is also their best friend. The neurologist told us a few weeks ago we will probably need to discipline her differently than our other kids. But did he even expand one breath further in that sentence?! Nope! So we are left to figure it out on our own. In the mean time, a little rest would be nice.
5. Have a DAILY quiet time
I'm not even talking about sleep here. But a "quiet time." That youth-ministerish lingo used for telling kids to read their Bible each day. It seems I am almost consistently in prayer (as is anyone with 4 children) but I lack in the dwellng on God's word. I have to say I was so much more faithful in my quiet times when I was in high school then I am now. I tried to read my Bible through in a year last year - and once I lost my little Bible reading sheet about the 3rd week of January - that plan flew out the window. So this year I am going to try and tackle one book a month. I am starting with Psalms. Which was probably the most appropriate scripture for me to choose yesterday. It was like God turned to the page himself. Psalm 1 "His delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law does he meditate day and night... whose leaf does not whither...and whatever he does prospers..." What a perfect passage to start the new year. I actually have some deeply personal goals that I am not quite ready to throw out there in the blogging world. But this verse spoke specifically to those goals I have for my marriage, our ministry, my dream. May this year His Word be "a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path..."
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