Resolutions.

This New Years Eve we shall be pushing the boat out as usual. We will park ourselves in front of Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, occasionally poking each other in the sides to keep awake, before clinking our glasses at midnight and going to bed.
Traditionally today is also the day for compiling endless resolution lists and because I am nice like that, I have saved the whole family the bother, and made them myself.
In keeping with our environmental awareness, I have recycled most of them from last year. No filling up those landfills with unwanted resolutions. Oh no not us.
Here goes;
Mummy’s Resolutions
1. Unless a special occasion (eg. NaNoWriMo 2005 etc) I will cut down to only ONE cup of coffee per day. This may seem a little hard on myself but you haven’t seen how much coffee I can cram into one mug. Last year I tried the ‘Coffee not so strong’ resolution. Now I’ll try it this way round.
2. Linked to the above, I will drink more WATER. I am terribly bad at this, I find it so boring but when I make the effort I do feel much better.
3. I will edit that novel. I had a flick though it yesterday and re-wrote one of the chapters. It felt good to be working on it, without the pressure of churning the words out. I just played around with a couple of thousand words until they sounded right. I’m not making any promises about seeing my name in print this year; it’s more about gathering confidence and finding my voice.
4. Every Sunday the whole family will go out for a walk somewhere nice. This isn’t a fitness resolution, we don’t have a car so we walk to school, into town a couple of times a week and to
to Tumble Tots, but these are all incredibly dull and urban walks. This resolution is about getting out and appreciating the world without making that ‘I’ve got too much to do’ excuse.
5. Improve my exam / revision technique. The OU may do extra classes, if not I will find some books. (If anyone has any tips on this, they will be much appreciated)
6. After forgetting to nominate, I will at least vote in the BOB Awards.

Littleone’s Resolutions.

1. I will be in bed by 8pm. If I am not yet tired I will sit and read by myself until I am.
2. I will stay there all night.
3. When I have finished playing with a toy I will put it away before I start on something else.
4. Mummy’s resolutions look good. I will drink (more) water too, yum! And I will always eat every scrap of my dinner.
5. When Mummy is writing / studying/ reading, I will play quietly by myself in a corner. No need to bribe me with a DVD anymore.
6. When I am asked not to do something, I will not retort with ‘Go away!’ or ‘I don’t like you!’ however much the above might be said in a comedy fashion.
7. I will no longer insist on wearing my clothes on back to front. That fashion was so 2004.

Mr Purple Elephant’s Resolutions.
I am being easy on him because (delete as appropriate) I know how difficult he finds it / He is almost Goddamn perfect anyway.
1. I will give up smoking. He actually tried this on 23rd Dec, by Christmas night he was scaling the streets of Cambridge looking for somewhere, anywhere selling cigarettes.
2. See Littleone’s resolutions. No. 5.

Control freak? Moi?