My friend Betsy posted her New Year's resolutions, and it made me think about my own. My problem is, when I consider things to change, I get bogged down thinking, "Now is that thing really important enough for the effort it will require?" For instance, I'd like to keep my house continually clean enough for company to drop in. However, company never drops in, so it's hard to motivate myself. Also, it takes quite a bit of work to maintain it at that level all the time. Do I really care that much? It helps when we have frequent weekend visitors because I keep doing a little bit each day, thinking, "I don't want to have to work myself to death the day before they get here to make it presentable." Thus, it's been in pretty good shape for 2 weeks. So who's coming next weekend? Anyone?

The one thing I know I want to do is eat less calories than I expend, i.e. lose weight. But that has been a resolution for most of my adult life, with more success at times and dismal failure at others. I also want to be a better wife and mother - every day and night I think about that one. Particularly in the way of being more consistently laid back, less moody, and having confidence in the right way to deal with misbehavior from the boys every time (I really need to figure out/decide what exactly that entails). I feel like there are a lot of things on my mind that fall into the "need to figure that out" category... Maybe I should make a list of those and see how many I have figured out by the end of the year.

So, anyone else have New Year's resolutions?