New Year's Resolutions

Happy 2015! Unlike last year when I was pregnant and exhausted, we made it to midnight this year. It was a relaxing evening of deep dish pizza, playing with Linus, snuggling on the couch, and watching tv. That's apparently my kind of fun these days.

I haven't done any resolutions the last couple years because I haven't thought of too many things I've been willing to commit to change, but a couple of things have sparked my interest this year that I'd like to try my hand at.

In 2015, I resolve to:

• Not waste so much food!

I'm a horrible food-waster. I don't eat leftovers. I buy produce only to forget about it and pull it out of my fridge months later saying, "What was this?"  I'm going to start eating what I buy, eating leftovers, and cooking creatively with ingredients I have. This is part of my grand scheme of saving money since we just moved to one of the most expensive places to live in the US.

• Do some yoga .

I made this resolution today. My back is killing me because I'm constantly bending over to play with Linus, help him walk, or pick him up. It's like it's slowly starting to arch the wrong way. Not only that, but my "bad" knee has been really bothering me because I sit cross-legged on the floor all the time. It is yucky. I think yoga and some strength-training will help.

• Put my cell phone down more and just be.

It makes me sad that my son would rather play with my phone than with any of his toys. So it's time for me to stop internetting and text messaging so much. The phone can stay on the counter while Linus is awake.

• Blog more.

When I was younger, I journaled a lot.  I had paper journals, online journals, and I'd write long and rambling emails about my thoughts and emotions to my friends.  The last couple of times that I'ev tried to start online blogs, I haven't done a great job keeping up on them, but 2015 is going to be the year.  I'm not talking a post a day or anything, but maybe once a week or so, even if it's  just to post a picture of Linus and talk about what we did at the store.  I don't really have the crazy emotions of an 18 year-old girl anymore, so it's not going to be deep stuff here, but some thoughts on parenting, womanhood, or silly stories are to be expected.