MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

I like New Years Resolutions, they are naturally ‘listy’. As a kid my list consists of: clean Jasper (my rabbit) out more often and be nice to my brothers and sisters, oh if only life was still as simple…

Watch out 2016 because this year I am going to:

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• Get the carpets cleaned.

• Cut the boys fingernails and toenails more.

• Go to art gallery at least once a month.

• Visit a country I have never visited before.

• Throw away underwear that 3 years old or older.

• Beat the laundry basket. MUST DO ONE LOAD A DAY (repeat). MUST DO ONE LOAD A DAY.

• Try not to get cross when Ben takes forever taking shit.

• Stay fit. Body Coach has broken the habit of weighing myself everyday which is excellent, but I really don’t want the weight I have lost to creep back on.

• Make relaxing a priority. Doing nothing makes me feel anxious, but I know unless I chill the fuck out I am going to crash and burn.

• Stop buying sweatshirts. Enough is enough.

• Wear more jewellery. Accessorised people look so much more ‘together’. I think it’s within my power to be one those people…

• Write letters. A hand-written note in a sea of bills and junk mail is a lovely thing. 

• Read more. I read every night before bed, but am usually so bloody knackered, I barely manage a paragraph. Perhaps we could have a ‘No TV night’ and just read? Ha! Never. Going. To. Happen.

• Promotion… it’s a big one. After spending the last 4 years in a blur of being pregnant or in-charge of a tiny baby, it feels nice to go into 2016 with a clear(ish) head – time to make it count…

• Leave one weekend a month free. Just to wake up and do what takes our fancy/ make the most of London.

• Remove nail varnish from toes rather than a) paint over it b) leave it so long that I am embarrassed my the sight of my own feet.

• Buy less. Buy better. I never met a bit of cashmere I didn’t like, yet I own hardly any of it…

• Do copywriting/creative for more Mummy businesses (and less big corporate machines). 

• Jazz up dinner. We eat a rotation of about 10 meals on repeat. Must step it up. Maybe ask friends to share their ‘week night classics?’

• Get the boys eating more Asian food.

• Help other people. I’ve been really inspired by The Double Mama’s Love Box Campaign and  MADLife’s “One Worn Every Minute” idea. I’d love to do something half as brilliant..

• Remind  Derek (our wire-haired daschund) that I  love him. Lady & The Tramp was right!! Having a baby and dog is hard. Going to try and make it up to this guy…

• Put away clothes carefully.

• Get a book deal. Not sure how? Any advice gratefully received?

• Stay-out late once in a while. Come 10pm I get The Fear and want to get home to bed. I call it the Cinderella effect, but in reality its can be a bit dull.

• Get as much sunshine as possible.

• Print more pictures.

• No milestones. I am very ‘goals orientated’; meaning I have a tendency to go from one big project (marriage, baby, house-renovation) to the next, I love it. But it come with TONS of pressure. This year we are just going to ‘be’.

• Do better reactions to stuff. I am very bad at showing appreciation for gifts or opportunities. It’s not that I’m grateful, it’s that I am not good at enthusiasm on demand.

• Less plans. Less phone. Less social media (panic!). More enjoying the moment.