2013

I only had one resolution for 2012: give birth. After two miscarriages in fall of 2011 I only had one thing on my mind going into this year. How often can people say they succeeded at their New Year's resolution? This may be the one time in my life I can say I did and I have the proof :)

Who me?

Feeling far too confident due to this fact I have big goals for 2013. Did you know that the US government actually took the time to post a list of popular New Year's resolutions? Of course, what else would they be doing with their time and our money......

Anyway, for me, I have a few specific resolutions for the year:

Volume - You can ask anyone that has met me... my default setting is loud. Which leaves..... louder and fuming...... The girls, particularly the oldest, has inherited this problem from me. If you have a group of children that start out loud then when they fight they get louder, where does that leave Mama when she's trying to get everyone's attention? I have to bump up to my loudest setting just to get their attention which doesn't help. So my resolution is to bring the volume of our whole household down.

No idea where this is from. I found it on pinterest, but no one links to the original site for it.

Book Club - I want to read a book from cover to cover!! I haven't completed a book since the last Harry Potter book released in 2007. Tamarin was almost a year old. I had more time on my hands back then. No... wait..... I have read one book completely since then, but I don't remember when it was. I read The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart ... which I thought was the FIRST book in the series.... turned out it was the last..... I mean it's called Last Enchantment.... you'd think I would have realized it was the last book BEFORE I was halfway through it. I want to reread some books I love (Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Touch Not the Cat or Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart) and a few new ones as well. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!!

Then there are the common resolutions.

ORGANIZATION!

Or, the lack there of....

I've got to figure out how to get us more organized! Especially in the school room..... I've organized these shelves twice since August..... as you CAN'T tell. It doesn't help that my tornadoes have been known to empty every shelf once and a while. I want to pick one thing (not even a whole room, just one THING) every week to focus on and get it organized. Today it was stuffed animals. I told the girls it was a game. I needed them to sneak all the stuffed animals into the laundry room without Daddy noticing :) They bought it! Score one for me! They are all being washed as well as the bench toy box most of them go in. I'm going to downgrade my clean laundry basket to contain the overflowing stuffed animal zoo and get a new one for laundry. So week #1 is already a success!

I've been searching the internet for organization ideas. I'm just not finding anything that screams "THIS IS IT!"

So anyway, there it is. What are your resolutions? And I don't want to hear the typical, "lose weight, save money" blah blah blah. I want a personal, real resolutions from my friends that read this.