New Years Resolutions

Do you make them? I do. Every year. Wanna know what my list looks like every single year? 

1. Lose weight. Eat better. Exercise more. (Huh, betcha didn't see that one coming, did ya?)

2. Get out of debt. Quit spending so much freakin' money on craft supplies and shoes for Emily!

3. Pray more often. Study my scriptures. Have consistent FHE and family prayer.

4. QUIT SLEEPING SO DANG MUCH.

5. Give up Diet Coke.

Well, we can all agree that my past resolutions haven't been exactly effective. Well, except we've been doing a pretty dang good job with the FHE and family prayer bit. 

So I decided to make some New Years Resolutions that I can actually stick to:

1. Potty train Jake. I realize that our sewer bill may double once he starts using the toilet, but I think I can handle it. I think once it gets warm, I'm just going to lock him outside naked. If the neighbors dog can poop on our lawn, our two year old can poop on theirs. 

2. Teach Emily how to count. For some reason her favorite number is 69.(What do you suppose that means?) So she says, "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11...69!!" I've told her a hundred times that TWELVE comes after eleven. But she still hasn't gotten it. 

3. Convince Daniel that while he may be smart, he is not the smartest person in the universe. So when I tell him to do something, he can't say, "Um, I don't think you're right about that because I'm smarter than you." The other day he spent over an hour teaching me math. According to him I got most of the answers wrong. In my defense, some of the questions were, "What is A plus Z?" and, "How many is 1 plus a dot?" Do you know the answers to those questions? 

4. Spend approximately 4.2 hours every day kissing Ben, holding Ben, squishing Ben's legs, taking pictures of Ben, talking about Ben and pretty much just worshipping at my alter dedicated to Ben.

5. Lose weight. (Shut up. How could I make New Years Resolutions without adding that one in? Besides, this time I am going to do it. Seriously. What, you don't think I can? Should we bet? You just wait, I'll show you. Yeah, you better walk away.) 

 

Please share YOUR resolutions!

(PS Christmas Recap coming soon.)

Comments

[Stephanie...]

You forgot to mention HOW you are going to lose weight? Are you going to do the old fashioned way of exercise? If so..I totally will join you and we can be running partners. :)

[Ruth]

I think you should spend at least 4.6hr with Ben! I agree with putting Jake outside for potty training! I taught AJ by having him "water" the plants! Hey... it worked!! He had no care in the word when it came to becoming potty trained! I can't even begin to touch the one about Emily's obsesssion with the number 69... don't even go there! Even with all the math courses I have behind me, I can't answer Daniel's math questions. Hmm... my resolutions? Lose weight would be good. Try to not be so dramatic would be another good goal! I think the one I am going to work really hard on is "making wiser choices in regards to $$ ". I know.... boring.

[natalie]

i like your plans. i have the same ones every year also! mainly eat better and work out more. blah blah blah. i am SO HAPPY i am done potty training! that is my favorite thing about this past year. no more diapers. so good luck with that! it will be so nice to only have 1 in diapers.

happy new year!

[Tat and Andrew]

1 + . = 12.7 duh!! everyone knows that!

[SARA Garlick]

Um... too much info on the whole jake pooping on lawn thing. And dude, i feel bad for the other 3 that you're not as obsessed with. I thought parents weren't supposed to favor. Even though mom and dad love me the most. And uh daniel is the smartest person in the universe, so give it up. Also, digital scrapbooking ( previous post)? How gay. What happened to crafts? does EVERYTHING have to be computerized? what a joke.