As this year is coming to a close, Ive been doing the normal "what can I change about my life to make it better Resolutions". I realise there is alot Id like to change every year. Last year I resolved to be more patient, learn a new language and ...oh there was something else im sure of it, but I coudnt tell you. I think my husband wrote it down somewhere. HA HA! I know I know, Im not the only one to make resolutions and lose sight of them after a month or two. I DID have a very wonderfully generous friend tutor me in french for a few months, until I had my daughter and well things just got so busy for the both of us, her in Law school, me up to my eyes in kids and house work. Have I been more patient? I know Ive been trying. Ive been speaking in just above a whisper to the kids so that if I do lose my temper (which lets face it, I do) Raising my voice still wont be so loud. I swore Id never hit my kids, never spank. Then a friend who already had a few said that if I didnt swat their butt or the palm of their hand for being rough with the animals or touching something dangerous that they wont take it seriously. Sure enough a swat on the butt for pulling the cats tail turned into a swat on the butt for getting on my nerves. I had opened up the flood gates for a really trying few years and not for me, for my son. Lately after a lot of soul searching I decided that with Eve and starting fresh with Talon I will follow my gut instincts and not spank anymore. For any reason. I should have followed my own istincts before. What works for someone elses children might not work for my own. I realise that now! Talon doesnt respond well to yelling or spanking. So it be, Im giving myself ONE new year resolution and I think its one I wont forget and can definitely stick with...NO SPANKING, NO YELLING!
Now for the next two weeks I think I will definitely have my work cut out for me. The stress is high as Its a week lefft until christmas and I still have to finish my Grandmoms Christmas present, bake 12 dozen cookies including the gingerbread parfaits for christmas dessert, clean my house, puffy paint and hang the stockings, wrap christmas gifts, write and fill out and send out the christmas cards, and last but not least....watch Little Women over and over again until my husband threatens to divorce me. :)
Have a Merry Christmas to my precious readers out there :)
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