Yesterday I made a goal to write daily *again*. Today, I’ve achieved that. Tomorrow, I intend to continue. On Wednesday, it may be hard but I will get
up at the crack of dawn to fit it into the “old schedule” and perhaps make it a
“new schedule.”
Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and sit for five, maybe
ten and read. Better yet, drop me a
comment and let me know if I should keep writing this blog.
Now, onto the subject at hand resolutions! Do you make them or not? I reached a point in my life a few years ago
when I just stopped making resolutions at the end of the year. Sometimes, I make them day to day.
For example, I stopped worrying about resolving to lose
weight and started just eating better foods because consuming junk food leaves
me feeling crappy. I would rather feel
happy and not bloated. So I choose to
eat better because I really do not like coming down from a “sugar high” or fall
asleep mid-afternoon. I have too much to
enjoy… books to be read, kids to play board games with, recipes to try, and
ohhh a blog to write daily!
To further stress this point, I had thrown out the scale
five years ago, stopped weighing myself and in turn somehow lost 25
pounds. Unfortunately, several family crises
later, I gained it all back. I’m still
who I was before I lost the weight, after I lost it, and when I regained it. Perhaps I was meant to weigh what I do.
Then there are the moments we resolve to be more organized,
when I have had enough and clean up small areas of our home. We all
have them. The walk-in-closet no one
sees. Or the spare room, that has become
the store everything you can’t live without but really don’t use anymore. And finally, worst of all either an attic or
basement where we put the holiday decorations, seasonal cloths and camping/sports
equipment.
A year ago I cleaned out my half of the walk-in-closet and
stopped wondering *if* I could fit back into several outfits I wore when I was
first marriage. For those who don’t know I’ve been marriage more than twenty years and
have three sons. The oldest is old
enough to *gasp* drive now. I
rearranged what cloths I kept by color.
Being a creative person I guess is what made me organize my clothes like
a rainbow. It has been a huge relief,
when in a pinch, to go into my closet and be able to just grab an outfit in
less than a minute compared to several.
This week, I cleaned out two linen closets. I found we have eight sets of twin sheets and
only one kid is sleeping in a twin bed presently. However, come summer when it’s time to go to
Boy Scout Summer Camp I will know where all the twin size mattress pads and
sheets sets are. But the rest of us sleep
on a full, queen or king size bed. There
were only three extra sets of sheets for king and one for the queen. I’m missing an extra set for the full. I filled a garbage bag full of old linens
that were not even fit for our dogs to use for bedding. I found stash of pillow cases I didn’t know
we had too. Best of all I filled a
medium size shopping bag with plan cotton sheet sets we don’t use and plan to
donate them.
Do you make resolutions? Goals? Promises? Or do you just live day to day?
