Happy New Year!

After two weeks off of school and some work, we are finally back on track to schedule city.  The two older ones went back to school today and Amanda goes back tomorrow.  Of course when I picked Sarah up from school her teacher said she did not have the best day and almost fell asleep after lunch, but she did survive.

We had a nice Christmas at home with a couple days off before we headed to my parent's house for Christmas with the extended family.  The kids had a great time with their cousins and I got to catch up with my siblings which was nice.  Unfortunately there was no snow so we couldn't do any crazy sledding this year, but we substituted with bowling and everybody appeared to have a good time.

I'm not one to make New Year's Resolutions, because I think you shouldn't wait for New Year's if you need to make a change in your life.  Just make the change.  Such as changing your eating habits, you should do that anyway so just do it.  However, this year I decided to buck my anti-resolution mindset and make a few.

First, I'm going to try to go to bed by 10:30p every night.  Well, every week night.  If not actually be in bed, at least go upstairs and start getting ready for bed.  Since I usually start the process around midnight, this will be huge for me.  However, I think the extra sleep is really important and will make some enormous changes in my life such as increase my patience, allow me to drink less caffeine, allow me to drive without falling asleep and maybe even prevent me from sleeping in instead of going to yoga.  I may even be able to get rid of some of the bags under my eyes and hopefully my metabolism will start working again.  The sad part for you is I usually start writing my blog late at night, so if I can't fit it in earlier there may be less posts during the transition.  You will just have to call me to find out how I'm doing :)

Second, I'm really, really going to go to yoga more.  In the past I was trying to go so many days that it was just daunting.  I gave up before I started.  Then I decided I would go when I could, but only if I could go at least a couple of days in a row.  I wouldn't go if I knew I wasn't going to be able to go for the next couple of days which often meant that I didn't go at all.  Now I am just going to go whenever I can and feel good about the fact that I made it.  Plus, Charlie got me an awesome yoga mat to Christmas, and I would feel bad if I didn't use it because he thinks I don't use any of the gifts he ever gives me (which sadly is more right than wrong).

Third, and this is a big three, I'm going to try really hard not to let things get to me so much.  I'm turning 40 this year, I just have to finally let things go.  I read a really cool quote someone posted on Facebook last week that basically said if someone says something bad about you that you shouldn't worry about your character you should worry about theirs.  I like that, I'll stick to that mentality.

So, nothing Earth shattering, but still something which is more than I usually do.  Of course I'll try to write more too, but again that's not a resolution that's just something I really want to do so I might as well start now.