resolutions 2013 edition

• lose weight (i quit even suggesting a fictitious number, because we all know that makes it even more impossible ;)

• drink more water (yawn...)

• sit up straighter and take much deeper breaths and count to ten more

• eat more apples (same resolutions, different year i know... but this one is SO EASY to keep!)

• however... my 'stop being polite and start being real' resolution just has to go.... here in paradise everyone is so bloody polite, that my new new year's resolution is 'be a little bit more polite and a whooole lot less pushy and me first - we are NOT in CA anymore and there is no need to fight for your right to be that little bit more important than all the other very important people around you' - phew ;)

•  quit biting my fingers

• ride my bike as far as Cape Cod Bagel (i sort of, slightly, ever so slightly miss Cream Pan's banana croissants with nutella....)

• visit England (and Wales) (and maybe even Ireland and Scotland!)

• only use my phone to take in-the-moment pictures while out with the kids (awful awful hateful evil disgusting anti-social horrible mom habit... must NOT use the phone so much - except to take pictures ;)

• go to Maine and Vermont and New Hampshire and Nantucket (oh my gosh, i LOVE 2013 already and it's not even an even year!!!)

• glimpse Bill Clinton (though sniffing him would be preferable :)

• tour the Oval Office (this is turning into a wildest dreams wish list instead of boring fix-it resolutions)

• spend an entire day in the Smithsonian

• ride the Maid of the Mist again on an incredibly hot day and actually take passports next time so we can go to Canada

off to watch Les Miserables with 'the hubbie' and get rid of all the confectionery temptations in the house before the clock strikes midnight. one minus point for Cape Cod, we have to wait till real
midnight here for it to be New Year... in CA we used to just celebrate like we were on EST ;)


ps snapshots from previous New Years Eves..... good good times