59 Seconds
As some of you know, I am not a fan of New Year's Eve. I wish that we could celebrate it in decade increments--then we wouldn't have to deal with so many drunk people on the road, so many barren resolutions, and so many people at the gym for the first week of January. Oh, and I don't like staying up late, because it just reminds me that I'm too tired to party like a freshman in college anymore.
I told Andrew that. He told me I was a 90 year-old and that we had to stay up till midnight and that next year we had to actually go to a party. (LAME!)
So 59 seconds before the ball dropped I lost my mind and blurted out some resolutions that I thought I'd document for funsies. ;)
1. I resolve to really focus on my boys. One of the reasons I lose focus on them is because I keep the laptop in the kitchen. Sure, I stay up-to-date on news and emails, but I also tune out Isaac asking for milk 50 times. Not anymore!
So far, it's going well....I feel less frustrated and more content because when I'm with my kids, I'm really with my kids. Not Facebook.
2. I resolve to drink something other than coffee and wine this year. Water is just so....boring. It makes me feel nauseated if I drink too much of it, so I'm chugging Crystal Light Peach Tea these days. I am almost positive that they will discover Crystal Light causes cancer in a few years, but until then...I'm staying hydrated.
3. I resolve to follow God cheerfully this year...sometimes I forget that he is leading. It hasn't felt like he has taken us in a very specific direction in 2009, and I certainly feel forgotten in so many ways...which is ironic, because it's not that God has forgotten me, it's that I have forgotten him. What He looks like. What His promises are. How good and faithful He is. I wish I could see the tapestry from a little ways back, because I know that he is making something beautiful. It's just hard to know what.
Ah, reader. Such a serious resolution to end on...but it's all I had time for in 59 seconds.

