You wanna know what’s awesome about [5]-year-olds?
“Hey, Mommy, how big were you at your Weight Watchers meeting?”
“Hey, Mommy, I thought you said we weren’t going to McDonald’s anymore.”
“Hey, Mommy, why are you giving away that pretty dress? Doesn’t it fit?”
Busted. By a kid who needs help wiping her nose and asked me if she had to use her fork with her green beans tonight.
January is almost half over, and if I look at my list of usual resolutions, they’re almost all broken to pieces.
Stay within my Weight Watchers points (my version of “eat better”)? Nope.
Exercise three times a week? No, ma’am. No, sir.
Declutter my entire house in January? No way, no how.
Get up 30 minutes early every single day for a quiet time? Not happening.
Floss? Heh. I gave this one up two years ago.
I know lots of you have given up on this type of resolutions, avoiding the stringent rules and changes that more often than not end up disappointing us. And some of you choose to focus on one word each year. I’ve done that, too, but just like my reading of the One Year Bible, I’m taking two years on my word {obey}. Some of you even shared your attainable goals and resolutions on my Facebook page:
Read one book a month.
Have people over once a month.
Declutter house, one room at a time.
Stop making resolutions.
Haha! I’ve sworn to stop making resolutions, too — about as many times as I’ve sworn to shave my head because my hair is so uncooperative and difficult. But honestly, I love setting goals — especially the kind I can actually meet. Let’s do that today.
Let’s give up on perfect (which, honestly, I wouldn’t be even if I did manage to keep all my “regular” resolutions) and get on with life by making progress with better resolutions.
10 New Year’s Resolutions We Can Keep
1. Try something new. Try a new recipe, listen to a new band, sit in a different spot on the couch. Just do one thing that’s new to you.
2. Try something old. What did you love to do as a child? As a single person? As a college student? What’s that thing you gave up when life became too busy, too hard, too whatever? Do it again. Just give it a try. Whatever it is — drawing, eating cold pizza, volunteering — might not fit perfectly into your life today . . . but it might. It might be fun to do once, or maybe it’s a hobby or habit you pick back up again. You’ll never know unless you try!