The title of this refers to my 2010 resolution. Devoted readers (I don’t even know if my mom’s on this list, I doubt it) may remember that I made a promise of trying to blog a bit more frequently, but based on the entirely cruddy ending of 2009 (which began and middled as cruddy too) I felt it was best to keep my mutterings to myself. I know that 2009 was very few people’s favorite year, but I think I ended up feeling even sorrier for myself by blabbering about how “2009 stinks, 2009 stinks”. It therefore became even more self-fulfilling (and stinky).
But here’s the problem: my kindergarterner, who is a mirror of myself, started walking around complaining about EVERY little thing, too. All the bad parts of school were discussed ad nauseum over and over. And I finally sat her down and said that she needed to STOP complaining about everything! Especially old grievances – she brought up the other night how I’d given away one of her birthday gifts (a Bratz doll that wasn’t allowed in our house) OVER a year ago. The doll was even replaced (not by me, by my husband) but she still was complaining – not because she was still mad, but because complaining was becoming her go-to!So I discussed staying positive and only talking about the good things and realized that of course it was advice I should be taking. I’m being tested as “for better, for worse” has also turned into “for lunch” as my husband job-hunts from home, and together our family develops cabin fever in record-setting cold.
But if the sunshine doesn’t start with me it won’t so I’m hoping my pollyanna ways will begin to rub off. At least I can write about it to hold myself accountable!
