The Mommies, Esquire owe our faithful readers an apology. We’ve been busy and slack because we’ve been dog tired and have had a gazillion errands blah blah blah blah blah blah. So what’s new? Anyway, we’ve been thinkng about our New Year’s resolutions. January 1st is right around the corner and it isn’t too late to think about some things on our list….besides getting in shape.
It's time to look a little daring. Enough of black clothing!
We’re wondering…
Got any unusual New Year’s resolutions that you plan to stick to this year?
Here are some that we’ve heard from our friends and some we’ve decided to put on our “master list”:
1. Learn to say “No” (No, I will not babysit your kids. No, I do not like to cook banana pudding. No, I will not drive carpool on Friday morning. No, I do not want to go to your mother’s house this Thanksgiving.)
2. Quit drinking diet sodas.
3. Plan time for myself each day…..even if it’s just 10 minutes to be alone.
4. Chop all of my hair off…..or grow my hair out….dye it red, etc.
5. Stop dating losers, commitment phobic men, or Mama’s boys. (single ladies out there, we hear ya!)
6. Buy myself some boobs (Seriously, a friend of ours has said that she plans on visiting a plastic surgeon the first week in January. She’s not playing around with the resolutions, sister)
7. Use my gym membership, at least four times a week (that I’ve been paying for over the last year but have only been twice)
8. Schedule a regular “date night” with my husband (the yearly office Christmas party should not be the only time we go out together)
9. Send cards and handwritten notes more often….including handwritten thank you notes
10. Read more (Not trash, but the classics that I only bought the Cliff Notes for in high school…Where is that reading list from the 11th grade?)
11. Vow not to go to Chuck E. Cheese unless held at gunpoint
12. Clean out my child’s folder and backpack DAILY. Read all letters from school CLOSELY (this will prevent any/all misunderstanding and embarrassment like when my daughter told me that it was “Pajama Day” at school, but it wasn’t. Instead, it was the school Christmas program…and MY child sang Christmas carols in her Dora p.j.’s while everyone else had on cute sweaters and smocked dresses)
13. Don’t commit to projects unless I plan to give it my all
14. Learn something new (some craft, how to do something, a new subject, etc.)
15. Make a new friend.
16. Fall in love (a single friend asked us if you could plan to fall in love….we say, Why not?)
17. Go somewhere I’ve never been before……by myself.
18. Take salsa lessons….or cha cha…or rumba
19. Wear false eyelashes
20. Sell my house….and move out to the country.
21. Try out for community theater (Anyone want to dance a Fosse number? or sing like Maria Von Trapp? Won’t know ’till you try.)
22. Throw out everything in my closet that I haven’t worn in the last six months (Those size two jeans? Give it up, already)
23. Find out what kind of style I really like and quit buying stuff that I don’t (Don’t like French Country, but that’s all you see? Stop buying it. Want primitive furniture? Go get it.)
24. Do not spend another holiday with people that I really don’t like.
25. Wear red (Stop thinking that black clothes are my friend….I’m beginning to look like I am in perpetual mourning).
26. Learn to flip an omelet.
27. Finish writing a novel (uh, um….the Mommies, Esquire have some work to do)
28. Start my own business
29. Pray more.. and often.
30. Wear hats
31. Go skinny dipping
32. Never go to the grocery store in slippers again (it happens, people)
33. Stop thinking that taking care of myself is taking time/money/energy away from my family (Like someone very wise told me: “There’s a reason when the plane is going down that Mommy should put the oxygen mask on herself before putting it on her kids)
The list could go on and on…..
So, what’s a resolution that you have? Share it!!!!!
